Tipák Series

2026, Industrial paints and soft pastel on canvas

9 x 12 x 1 1/3 - 48 x 60 x 1 1/2 inches per Panel

Philippines

Tipák mimics asphalt road fragments. Its white longitudinal lines measure 4 to 6 inches, the same width as standardized road markings in the Philippines.

Within the series, the occasional children’s roadside drawings and street-game chalk markings, all rendered in soft pastel, illustrate the fragility of humanity within the world’s current hyper-optimized commodifying system.  

Igíb

2026, Plastic water containers, purified water, food dyes, acrylic box on found styrofoam base

10 x 12 x 15 3/4 inches

Manila, Philippines

Igíb encases the circulation of the most valuable liquids in the contemporary period: potable water and the multiple petrochemical fuels. These fluids are contained within plastic bags and reused bottles, highlighting the informal sachet-economy such as bote-bote fuel and ice-tubig retailing.

Between fuel and water, the absence of blood in the valuable liquids container illustrates the value of humans revolving around the two liquids are lesser than, as seen by how these resources cause tension and conflict.

Shaw Boulevard Station Platform

2026, Single-channel digital video (TouchDesigner), black and white, silent 

11 1/4 x 20 inches, 13-second loop 

Mandaluyong, Philippines

Shaw Boulevard Station Platform is a video depicting people located at the MRT-3 Shaw Boulevard Station Platform with applied video special effects mimicking surveillance systems.

Interloper (After Hesse)

2026, Found utility cable, site-specific intervention

Approx. 25 feet and 8 inches

Former Kamuning EDSA Bus Stop, Quezon City, Philippines

Interloper bends a discarded utility cable into a looping, arched form within the pillars of a decaying bus stop, interrupting the underutilized and underdeveloped infrastructure.

In systems where inconvenience is reframed as resilience under strongman political logic, the work performs this rigidity as instability for both the object and the bodies moving through and against it.

Lakbay (Journey)

January - June 2026 (Ongoing), Bare on floor sanitary hairnets and single-channel audiovisual installation

To be installed Q3 2026

Manila, Philippines

Lakbay is an ongoing, durational process-based sculpture composed of disposable sanitary hairnets accumulated through the artist’s use of motorcycle ridesharing as part of his daily life as a college student.

It visually quantifies the commodification of the convenience of mobility within Metropolitan Manila, where its population ritually participates in an ongoing battle with dense urban conditions and the lack of support for the overstretched public transportation system. 

Codependency

2025, Photography and digital post-processing

10 x 13 1/2 inches

Manila, Philippines

Codependency depicts a homeless person sleeping beneath a worn American-flag blanket on a concrete Manila bridge, where its curve leads the eye toward a desecrated river and a political poster. The stark contrast between the achromatic foreground and hyper-saturated blue environment emphasizes the tension between the visual reality and one’s own felt condition.

The faded and dirtied flag, now turned shelter, functions as a symbol of uneven exchange: U.S. power as both protector and oppressor, an aspiration and abandonment. Shot on a 5-year-old iPhone, the image blatantly showcases digital artifacts and selective color manipulation, mirroring the abruptly unstable narratives Filipinos inherit from U.S. military history, imperialism, and diaspora-dependent economies. 

Mag isa na lang ba ‘kong lalaban?

2022, Photography and digital post-processing

10 x 13 1/2 inches

Manila, Philippines

Artwork for Pasahero para kay TsuperHero, a group exhibition by the PWU-SFAD BFPG 3A Studio Arts x UGATLahi Artist Collective.

The Pasahero para kay TsuperHero is a campaign alliance of commuters in support to the jeepney drivers and operators’ call for the abolishment of Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program. This art exhibit aims to encourage artists and students participation to strengthen the calls and struggles of our jeepney drivers and operators through their artworks and collective action.