Restoration of "Apo Baket" - Keeper of Time-Honored Tradition and Values

Restoration of Apo Baket

Keeper of Time-Honored Tradition and Values 

San Vicente Botanical Garden

Poblacion San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Dr Abe V Rotor

She sits calmly in a garden,

full of thoughts and memories, 

while our troubled world grinds; 

would you like to hear her stories? 

Views and details of the concrete icon with local artist Bhoy Adora at work 2021.

Apo Baket undergoes restoration, 

by another skillful hand, 

rescued at the verge of oblivion,

 after her creator had gone.  

The icon, symbol of the old folk generation, keeper of time-honored tradition and values, was made by the late Francisco Boy Peralta in the seventies, and restored recently by Bhoy Adora.  Both sculptors are natives of San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.  The icon can be viewed at the San Vicente Botanical garden.