Jeanne F. Jalandoni is a New York City-based artist, who works primarily with oil paint and textile. Her work explores visually defining bicultural identity through examining her Filipino heritage and experiences growing up as a 2nd generation American.

for you it was the Nirvana tattoo / etched along your upper-arm in courier new / that dazzled the spiky-haired bassist who’d chirped / you into submission with, girl, you is the highest / yellow thing I ever did see.