fictional inventories

Catalogue: Collage Off-Cuts (2015-2022) is an inventory of remains and fragments— various images that were found, gathered and cut through the years—attempting to retell the story of each hunt. This work was part of a recently concluded exhibition at Gravity Art Space titled “The eye cuts where the hand lands”, curated by Pristine de Leon.

It was tough to view the cards punched inside these drawers but I like the added intimacy it created as the viewer’s hand combed and peeked through the notes and drawings

Catalogue: Collage off-cuts (2015-2022), Image from Pristine de Leon.

Moving from one studio/ house to another for the past years has led me to organize or create a sort of way to categorize all the clutter~ making them compact and easier for transport. When I’m not actively producing any work, cleaning and doing fictional inventories help me get through. I imagine them as repositories for future projects and story-making

Details of the collage work for The eye cuts where the hand lands. Image from Gravity Art Space.

Catalogue: Collage off-cuts (2015-2022). Installation View. Image from Gravity Art Space.

retrieval

archiving

inventories

catalogue

reading

browsing

pages

tactility

Video work. selected artists' books 2019-2022. Image from Pristine de Leon.

tides

I recently learned a lot about the tides. How they move in patterns as the ocean breathes. How they respond to the frequencies of the sun and the moon. How there’s harmony with the way it rises and recedes. And how all the same with life and death, there is certainty in it

ro-ro trip from iloilo to guimaras (dec 2022)

I’m telling this because the sea got me confused when I was a kid. Once I believed that there were pockets in the ocean with no water

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Where does the sea end? What does the horizon mean? Where does the tide go?

front cove view of our villa (nueva valencia, guimaras)