I am a Filipino-born painter currently studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. For me, storytelling and painting are synonymous. I draw inspiration from my home, the Philippines, and my experiences living there. Thematically, I’m thinking a lot about family, individual vs collective, grief, and trauma. I always find myself going back to collage, cut outs, and figuration. As I work, I examine the physical conditions, as well as the internal emotional dialogues occuring in the scenes I choose to paint. I’m always painting to answer some sort of question that I have at the moment. Right now I’m been wondering: how can we know if we do not feel?