STATEMENT
I’m interested in the human experience, symbiosis, and the vicissitudes of the interaction between the work and the viewer/consumer. In the construct of a hypereality and the use of metaphors and parallels, I try to seduce my audience, playing on their expectations and assumptions based on their preconceived notions. Through the lure and allure, I pull the viewer in hoping that their experience and understanding of the work will unfold into a dialectic gaze.
As a 1.5 generation Filipinx immigrant, my current body of work integrates symbols of post-colonialism; assimilation through cultural adaptation, cultural alienation, xenocentrism, westernization, and indigenization.
I’m interested in the human experience, symbiosis, and the vicissitudes of the interaction between the work and the viewer/consumer. In the construct of a hypereality and the use of metaphors and parallels, I try to seduce my audience, playing on their expectations and assumptions based on their preconceived notions. Through the lure and allure, I pull the viewer in hoping that their experience and understanding of the work will unfold into a dialectic gaze.
As a 1.5 generation Filipinx immigrant, my current body of work integrates symbols of post-colonialism; assimilation through cultural adaptation, cultural alienation, xenocentrism, westernization, and indigenization.
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