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Onsensenay epeatedray epeatedlyray SERIES, 2024 – 2025

Onsensenay epeatedray epeatedlyray conveys a complete departure from the perceived notion of a script and embraces letters as form. The work gravitates towards my relationship with language and how it bleeds into how I present myself in spaces where I can never fully articulate my thoughts. Experiencing language through the lens of the colonized, as my language retains remnants of the colonizers from whom we claim to be fully liberated. Onsensenay epeatedray epeatedlyray represents the difficulty of how different I view my native tongue and if that is because of not fully owning it, and the fact that Tagalog will always carry the speech of the colonizers but their languages will never carry mine. My work reimagines text and language completely devoid of its original purpose; to communicate, understand, and describe. It invites viewers to contemplate language as a visual entity divorced from its utilitarian function, prompting deeper reflections on cultural identity, linguistic colonization, and the complexities of self-expression.

First Exhibited:
May 2024 BFA Graduating Exhibition 2024: Look Both Ways, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Made into a Billboard for the City of Vancouver’s Launch Pad Art Program:

Inside Out Disco Ball I & II, installation, 8 inch resin casted disco balls

In Inside Out Disco Ball 1 & 2 consisting of two disco balls casted in resin to challenge the concept of the readymade. The installation is an attempt to rid the original purpose of the ready made, and completely rendering the objects useless.

April 2023
BFA Project 2023: I’ll be your Mirror
Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC

NAutilus, 2023

Nautilus was a sculptural installation exhibited for the 611 Studios at Simon Fraser University. It was a combination of material experimentation (iridescent vinyl) and lighting as an attempt to create motion through a static sculpture. Nautilus (2023) mimicked water-like motion through the use of sound and lighting.

611 Studios, Simon Fraser University
September 2023

Hallucinations , 2022
Hallucinations was a series of abstract paintings that were installed under blue-light bulbs. The four paintings were made with use of luminous paint to depict as if the strokes were illuminating from the canvas.

LOOK BOTH WAYS – BROCHURE AND POSTER

I was tasked to design the Exhibition Poster and Gallery Brochure for the BFA Graduating Exhibition 2024: Look Both Ways circulated for the exhibition’s promotion.

Client:
Audain Gallery and SFU School Of Contemporary Arts

Year
April 2024