I believe creating art is an archaeological quest for personal and collective reason.  When I’m walking around the city or in the thick of nature -  I’m digging; looking for connections between the beauty I see and the very badness our human condition can present.  I feel blessed to practice an artistic language that can reveal such tension.

My artistic vision is broad yet I believe my work offers viewers a precise experience.  While my mediums and concepts are variegated they are connected by simplicity that is experienced both aesthetically and physically.  Worked with and executed correctly, simplicity offers strength and weight.  It is this powerful effect that ultimately encompasses my work.
 

What I can communicate through such simplicity is vast but my focus leans heavily on identity.   I explore the terroir of “self” through personal evaluations of death, spirituality, ancestry and modernity.  My perspective as a Filipino-American woman is also definitely present in my work but it is not the main platform for my concepts.  Overall, I believe critical investigations of self can influence our collective human experience and also, perhaps, reveal our place in the larger experience of nature and the universe.  My artwork is a very small and humble contribution to this grandeur.