About the drawing:

The drawing is based on an early 1900's ethnographic photograph depicting a "native Filipina woman and her child".  Photographs like these show how early American colonial practices in the Philippines treated indigenous people as less than human subjects.

The title, "Anak", refers to a Filipino folk song from the 1970's of the same name.  The text is in Baybayin, a Brahmic script indigenous to the Philippines, and is the first line of the song: "Nung isilang ka sa mundong ito" (when you were born into this world...).  The song speaks of family values and innocence lost as life goes on.

Francis Estrada