BenCab shares his reflections on Sabel, 60 years later.
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00:00My subject, Sabel, has been going on, which I've been using, and she's a subject matter.
00:09And in the end, she became iconic because other artists were influenced by the image.
00:16They even did a musical on Sabel because she represents the Filipina.
00:23Sabel was what you call a bag lady.
00:27When I first saw her, just across my window, she was wearing this plastic around her,
00:33and I started doing sketches, photography, because she represents a lot of things in my art.
00:41She can be abstract, she can be oriental, she can be...
00:46That's the challenge, that having one subject matter, I can explore it in a different way.
00:57you