Inspired by the slogan of the 1968 worker protests in France, "Beneath the paving stones, the beach," the use of paving stones in my practice has been a way for me to talk about political agency. Here, it became a marker for someone else's political agency in the form of graffiti that reads “Lupa sa Magsasaka” or “Land to the Farmer, “ bringing attention to the basic problem of landlessness in Philippine society, the phrase is a call for genuine agrarian reform. The work takes the form of a cairn, or a pile of stones intentionally arranged and left behind in the landscape as a way marker. Building off of previous works that used Mt. Pinatubo volcanic ash to create new landmasses of the Philippines in the form of paving stones abroad, this work also uses paving stones cast using local cement. However, in this piece, the stones have been created with a higher ratio of locally foraged sand, gravel and litter from the surrounding Mt. Banahaw, meaning that the stones will break down and become a part of the landscape again more rapidly. For me, this work is a way to ask questions about the role and limitations of art in political action, and to think about how we all must navigate these forking paths.