Alab Pagarigan: Sculpting Resilience Through Wire Alab Pagarigan’s artistic journey began in Antipolo City, Philippines, where he honed his craft at the Philippine High School for the Arts and subsequently pursued advanced studies at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. These formative experiences instilled within him a profound appreciation for materiality—specifically brass and copper wire—and established a stylistic approach characterized by its deliberate rejection of traditional painting mediums. Instead, Pagarigan embraced sculpture as his primary vehicle for express…