Art
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Museums, Memory, and the Work of Return
This essay is drawn from a panel discussion where I served as one of the panelists for Umpukan sa Nayon: No Object Unturned, organized by the Nayong Pilipino Foundation in October 2020. The conversation sought to explore the ethical, cultural, and historical dimensions of museum collections, especially those connected to indigenous communities. What follows is Continue reading
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Reflections on Space, Spirit, and the Art of the ADDU Chapel of the Assumption
Father Joel E. Tabora, SJ, who served as President of Ateneo de Davao University from 2011 to 2023 and who helped articulate the university’s mission as deeply rooted in the Mindanao context, once described university life in terms of three existential spaces: the familial, the horizontal, and the vertical. His leadership helped shaped Ateneo de Continue reading
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A River’s Dreamscape
An android American-colonial soldier marches silently, tribal gods and primeval ancestors spring out of the canvas, while a faceless pin-up girl poses with a golden toilet bowl. A river of indigenous fabric runs across the two panels, connecting, disconnecting, confusing, and revealing imageries and narratives. The viewer is at first disoriented at the marching symbols, Continue reading
Being Here, Now. 