My practice, interdisciplinary in nature - moving between architecture, movement and sculpture - explores the relationship between spirit and matter. I am interested in how space has the silent ability to evoke sensations like reverence, awe, wonder, daydream. There is a profound presence of spirit that moves between space, body, subconscious and the cosmos. This is rooted in Filipinx cosmologies and influenced by the diasporic experience - both eliciting a heightened perception in how we exist in the world, as it relates to others and the universe at large.

I turn towards Filipinx cosmologies such as, loob and kapwa: a belief that all beings are interconnected, an extension of one another and for this reason alive. On a more personal level, the diasporic/transnational experience is another lens that accounts for having a sensitivity to the relationship between our body and the environments we move through. In navigating different environments, there is a collection of impressions that leaves its mark on us which we carry throughout our lives. I hope to capture and illuminate these sensations, impressions and memories throughout my work. 

Materiality, a focus within my practice, holds memory and truth of the people and places that surround us. In the process of discovery through experimenting with materials, both natural and industrial, dynamic, fantastical qualities, otherwise hidden, are revealed. This approach in understanding materiality is the way in which I not only see but also hope to excavate the unassuming beauty in the world - people, places and things.

Sculpture/installation has the potential to become an architecture or site to welcome, through many forms, the transmutation of the unseen magick moving between us. For me this is movement, where the body is seen as a vessel to activate and respond to space, whether created or existing. This kind of activation invites communal gathering, ritual and ceremony, becoming a place of storytelling through the body as a way to transmute spirit in the form of collective healing.