'Zard-Ilocano

Atop a hillside in Ferdinand Marcos' home province of Ilocos Norte there was once a Rushmoresque...(Rushmorish?) monument to who else...



I never did get there in person, but I first saw it on a post card in Manila.
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After I had started writing my script and then thinking of things I could do in prep., I thought of doing some teaser shots using a large model of this apparition appearing Zardoz-like out of the mountain-top mist.




I did these photomontages to compare the progress of my sculpting with reference images of the Real McCoy. Unfortunately the whole thing dried too fast; cracked and fell apart...last summer was stinking hot!...like Manila!