My recent practice focuses on Philippine urban and street environments, particularly markets, sites of organized chaos where bodies, labor, and objects coexist within compressed spaces. These spaces are documented because markets function as the core of Philippine trade and labor. Through painting, I reveal how daily life is shaped by proximity and constant negotiation, often overlooked.
Color is central to my work, not only as a visual element but as a subject shaped by memory and feeling. Working with oil, I translate photography and digital collage into layered textures and forms on canvas. Rather than documenting these environments, my paintings function as a sensory archive, inviting viewers to feel the subtle pressures of Filipino daily life. The work immerses rather than describes.
Living away from home, my paintings become a study of how color and form carry the weight, rhythm, and intimacy of a place, bridging memory and presence, observation and participation.