Thian Rodriguez takes up bullets and leather, which in the Philippines are re-purposed for musical instruments during non-conflict times (U-turning into munitions and boots when times are bad), with calm interest. His gumption to explore the materials of extreme dystopia, comes from an organic artistry that draws from life as bricolage of random encounters with images from the art world, local ambition, and the extraordinarily dense cyberzone in which the country exists in a frenzied state.