I emigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. with my family at age 10. Since then, I have moved through the world many times feeling displaced. Internalizing such experience brought out the necessity for me to make art which reconsiders Filipinx American identity.

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I use art to return to those moments of displacement to understand them and how they shape me as a person. What kind of person do you become when you leave your land? Who will you be? Leaving all those people behind, all your knowing of a particular kind of life and living… where does your kind of grief go, or how does it manifest itself within you?

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My current body of work examines links between my personal experience and the history of the Philippines. I embed personal and social narratives in my artworks, articulating complicated collisions of historical events, memory, and personal experience.