HEAVENLY BODIES
In the small town of Ibajay, Aklan, the sun sets as the light breeze grazes the palm tree-lined rural roads. The community props up their wooden saints adorned only with the best of costumes beaded to perfection for the procession of the faithful, a Catholic tradition every holy week in the Philippines. There, a wide-eyed Cherry Samuya Veric finds himself awestruck with the grandeur of it all. “It
