SOMA Pilipinas and SOMA West CBD are excited to announce the latest mural in the SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District: PAGSASAMA SAMA (Tagalog for” joining together”). This mural, painted by ChiChai Mateo, with the support of Lloidy Fontanilla and Lorenzo Tamayo Lee celebrates SOMA Pilipinas’ legacy of community members coming together.

We interweave like the solihiya rattan pattern, creating bursts of sun and breathing life into the neighborhood. Central to the Folsom façade are two diwatas formed by waves— the waves of the sea that connect the Philippine islands, waves of the Pacific that connect the SF diaspora to the Philippines, and the waves we make here in SOMA herself. These waves weave all the figures together, including the diwatas’ hands reaching out to one another as the Philippine sun shines through.

Learn more about ChiChai's work here: https://www.chi-chai.co/

Mural made possible by SOMA West CBD, SOMA Pilipinas, and OEWD.

Video work by @Kapwa Kollective - Jeremiah Ysip, Jerico DeGuzman @omgjearbear, @.ryans.photographyyy.