It is to the advantage of store owners that the shutters were painted because the paints will somehow protect the steels from eroding faster than when it is bare.

I wonder who can guess the name of the old man because I also can't make it up to now. 😊 I might end up asking the store owner next time I go to Baguio and pass by the area.

@janton commented that the black one is a gas mask which can also be but I can't make the relationship witj the lady and the rose. Now that I came to your comment, maybe it is indeed a spray paint can. Now I'm defecting on what it really is. 😂