Each morning you blitzkrieg the tavern and pineapple conucos, / turn the rivers into arsenic, lock my kin up in sheet metal factories, / committing autopsies on their bodies while they are still alive. /

for hundreds of years  /         i am given     the gestures of freedom  without birds the hush of  mist   / awakening on my bones

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.