Nationalism ruins youth

Days before Independence Day, government lackeys pasted meaningless posters of the Philippine flag on rather fine examples of public art.
Rain and sun eventually rubbed out the posters, but not entirely.
The posters mar the particularly elegant specimen at left, on a wall of a Shell on Commonwealth, a monochrome of beige and black.
'Respect' it reads on the upper left hand corner and 'Team on the Loose' on the opposite side. The main graphic reads 'OTL'. The subdued palette, severe by graffitti standards, is remarkably sophisticated.
I think the turtle at left is Manny Pacquiao. Maybe that's why the poster pasters didn't paste directly on him.
The pink graffiti below are from the rear wall of the UP campus in Diliman, the wall bordering that nebulous transition between Tandang Sora and Katipunan (who knows where the one ends and the other begins). The wall faces MWSS headquarters. They are very old pieces. I can't remember exactly when they were painted but they must be at least a dozen years old. I speculate they were painted in contempt of Bayani Fernando's ludicrous 'MMDA Art' series, which was meant to pretty up blank walls. Their sophistication leads me to think they are work of UP Fine Arts students. There was much more on the length of that wall, but the greater part of the wall has been torn down and re-built. These are the only surviving pieces.
These pink pieces seem to be based on related sense of the limits of knowing, of cognition. The hirsute worm burrowing between two holes is dramatically repulsive and also symbol of a solipsistic universe. Does the worm know? Does it see? The apes on the other hand have a very marked subjecthood. They see deeply. Do they know more than us?
I think the Gloria caricature is a much later addition. It must be pointed out how brilliant it is in its condensation of icons and the economy of its execution. In this depiction, Gloria is both Hitler and a mouse or rat. The artist also fits in the caricature seamlessly onto one of the ovoid color panels of the MMDA art piece. Whether you're for Gloria or not, you have to admit it's quite clever.