We laugh until our fault lines split / our names into hyphens and we breath / the salt air of the Pacific like it is part of us. / Every mouth eats, every voice speaks, / every belly swells with second chances.
Open by Tomas Nieto
sister by Erin O'Malley
Drunken Selfies by Debasish Parashar
Anxiety Painting by Jeanne F. Jalandoni
Jalandoni’s preferred medium is oils, but she has recently branched out to working with textile and sculpture. Her imaginative, colorful paintings trace the exploration of her Filipino heritage and bicultural identity. She achieves this through portraiture and collaging flower motifs, while also acknowledging Filipino national symbols and “typical” found objects in a Filipino household.