Ta,Too Project
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.
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.