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Pamaypay: A Maria Clara Series The artist blends incongruous flavors traditional and modern, ethnic and cosmopolitan with a droll nod at turn-of-the century paintings depicting European street and café scenes. But who is viewing whom? Doll-like subjects in Philippine traditional Maria Clara costume gaze askance at unseen elements off canvass. Women of leisure are seated against a backdrop of greenery, and watch the world and perhaps also the viewer go by. Each one holds a woven leaf fan or 'pamaypay', which is the show's evocative theme title.