Granda Manor Hotel's Heart


It's the love month! Yeah, Granda Manor Hotel wears its heart out. This time they have a unique heart!
parking lot of Granda Manor Hotel in Tacloban
Can you see it? At that wall, straight ahead! It's a green heart, not red. And THAT is what amazed me!

Here's a closer look at that heart. Yes, I really went very near, just below it, to see more 'wow' details!
valentine live sculpture (crop art) at Granda Manor Hotel in Tacloban
Firstly, of course you can see, it's not a painting like many establishments would usually have. Neither is it a kind of lantern, nor some school green-art project nor an indigenous people's native handicraft!

It is a live sculpture (a crop art?) - by cutting and forming the leaves of those tall and thin ornamental bamboo plants that were already there, growing by the concrete fence and adorning the hotel's yard.

Simple as it may look (just a heart), I can imagine it is not easy to do. The bottom tip of the sculpture is probably 8 to 10 feet high already (see the distance from the top of the SUV to bottom point of the heart). Bottom of the heart pa lang 'yan ha, ang taas na! You still have to shape the humungous heart.

And all those are live, living bamboo plants. Magkamali ka ng konti, it's not as if you can epoxy things back together hehehe! Let's bow at whoever did that artsy heart! All we can do (at least) is 'parakpak'!

Mahusay! I mean to say the Tagalog meaning of the word - but, aw kay puydi, applicable man liwat an Waray-waray meaning. Yep, skillful, simply beautiful, and green organic art! May the artist thrive more!

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