The Good Relief by Aletheia Rio

Artist: Aletheia Rio
Title: The Good Relief
Description: There are some things better than just the relief goods after the storm. (Watercolor and Photoshop)

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Hands by Paul Imbong

Artist: Paul Imbong
Title: Hands
Description: This is something I came up with which I am planning to put up on a wall somewhere in Marikina over the weekend if I have time, preferably in one of the areas hit hard by Ondoy. The mural will be about 2 meters long.

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On To The Other Side by Arvin de Leon

Artist: Arvin de Leon
Title: On to the Other Side
Description: Someone crossing over the flooded sea of trash represented by a patch of tape. It's a picture about crossing over and overcoming difficulty. With a flying boat nonetheless.

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Hope Floats by Arvin de Leon

Artist: Arvin de Leon
Title: Hope Floats
Description: People enjoying themselves during the flood. Kids and adults alike were swimming and ferrying people to and fro.

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Updates

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a happy Christmas and that you're going to have a great year ahead. It's been 11 days since the new year rang in and I hope everyone took the time to really think of ways to make this great opportunity of still being alive and well count.

Honestly, during the weeks after the deadline for submissions for START HERE, I was feeling very low and unmotivated and have met personal problems that I won't talk about in detail anymore, which is why I still haven't been able to upload some of the submissions. For this, I am truly sorry. I should not have let personal problems affect the way I treated this project and of course, the artists who so willingly and unselfishly contributed. You guys deserve better and I promise to have things sorted out by the end of the week.

Let's all start the year right and fresh. :)

By the way, we're still looking for the right beneficiary to donate the money we raised to. All other endeavors have not pushed through, unfortunately. We're currently looking into Blue Bayanihan. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to email us at starthere.rebuild@gmail.com. Thank you!

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