Ta,Too Project

This series of self-portrait installations is in dialogue with Carlos Villa's Tat2 pieces that appropriated Maori facial tattoo traditions to explore his identity as a Filipino American in the 1970's. Villa's appropriation of Maori tatooing was a reflection on the inaccessibility to information on Philippine Art History and Indigenous Philippine Tattooing traditions. Considering how technology and the Internet has aided my search for self and placing myself within today's ethnic and cultural landscape, I manipulate and construct images through digital processes that allow me to explore the complex burden in our relationships with images and identity.