"Karagatan" is an ongoing series of works referring to water, bodies of water, and our relationships with them. One of the references for the series is the ancient super-ocean Panthalassa, the largest ocean the Earth has ever seen.
A quote that I often think of for this series is from Rachel Carson's 1951 book titled The Sea Around Us, where she wrote: “over eons of time, the sea has grown ever more bitter with the salt of the continents.”
"karagatan" is the Filipino word for ocean.
June 2026
Excerpts and stills from video piece titled Colliding (link to IG post)
Travel journal entry: Mother of All Oceans. March 31, 2025 (link to video and text posted in IG)
Artist residency reflections: Michigami. December 17, 2023 (link to video and journal entry posted in IG)
Artist residency reflections: gasp. March 17, 2024 (link to image and journal entry posted in IG)
Artist residency reflections: haplos. May 30, 2024 (link to video and journal entry posted in IG)
Artist residency reflections: sand drawings. June 29, 2024 (link to video and journal entry posted in IG)
Collaboration and interview: Climate. March 2023 (link to the collaboration with the Asian American Writers Workshop)
"Hold Your Earth." 2025, single channel silent video embedded in media player, 7.5 x1 x 11 inches (excerpt of video can be viewed here). Photo courtesy of Molly Wagoner/Zane Bennett Contemporary Art
Process and reflections: Posoge. August 12, 2023 (link to text and images posted in IG)
Process and reflections: Posoge. August 12, 2023 (link to text and images posted in IG)
Process and reflections: Posoge. August 12, 2023 (link to text and images posted in IG)
Travel journal entry: survive. May 6, 2024 (link to text and videos posted in IG)
Artist residency reflections: Rift. July 20, 2023 (link to image and journal entry posted in IG)
Artist residency reflections: rift. March 24, 2024 (link to images and journal entry posted in IG)