Fig. 2

"Myopside" (2020) 

This series of images was made using X-Rays. I had the unique opportunity to work with x-ray machines through my good friend Dr. Denton Chua and his father, Dr. William Chua (who is an amazing artist aside from being one of the country’s top cardiologists). I was interested in unseen biological structures, and found these in simple, everyday dried fish, or “daing”.  

I was never trained up to be an artist. Most of my productivity was prompted: either piqued by an interesting editorial assignment or reeled in by advertising. I’ve always found it difficult to get a personal project started without those prompts.
 
It took me a while, 5 years to be exact, to come up with what could be considered my second body of work. 
 
“sub/objects” was first shown as part of Strange Fruit, a group exhibition at Art Fair Philippines 2020.