Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas (Traditional & Digital Drawing on Paper and Cardboard, Thirfted Drapery and Rhinestones) | 60 “ by 20 “ | 2024

This piece is inspired by an aunt from the Philippines who is very devoted to her relationship with God that she was given a “vision” through dreams from her sleep, where she can see vaguely “predict the future”. In 2018, she read our family and dreamt of heavy pouring rain, to which she claimed was a sign of abundance for us that came with a job promotion and moving to a new home, to which did happen a year after the revelation. I decided to personify her vision through a divine Philippine precolonial goddess or figure of rain and wind, Anitun Tabu. I use various textures from the glossy print of my digital drawings (face), smooth pencil crayon cut out drawings (body), to the rhinestone bedazzling of the washed drapery from thirfted curtains (clothing). Inspired by 2000s fashion and pop culture (ex the piece being purple came from Prince’s 1984 song “Purple Rain), I subvert the gloomy and awful characteristic of rain into an ethereal and joyous celebration. Essentially, I show how mythology, folklore, and geographical conditions can be psychological in a sense that we can determine our spiritual beliefs, behaviours, and core identity through our surroundings.