Note from the artist:
I visited my home after 2 years being away for college. It was the first time my girlfriend had been to the Philippines. Me and my sister hadn’t been for some time. Once we got there we, at last, had one bus ride left. We all looked out the window.
“It looks cleaner than it has been,” my sister told me.
I was surprised: “Really? I think it looks dirtier.”
“That’s because you’re seeing it through her eyes.”
We get a bit arrogant about our home countries, we think we’ve cleared that hill of understanding. But we’re always wrong, there’s always more to see and more to learn; you must take it in, rapt, while you see it, until the next time you return home.
Daniel Stone grew up as a missionary kid in the Philippines. He is currently a senior at Sterling College where he is earning his degree in psychology.
