Handumanan sa Pamilya

Handumanan sa Pamilya is an exploration of my identity as a member of the Filipino diaspora in America through the visual interpolation of my family's oral history. These photographs were created in collaboration with the members of the Herrera clan, some of the first of my family to leave the Philippines due to the pressures exerted by the Marcos regime, crafting a new archive which preserves the memories of their upbringing in rural Cebu through performances and reenactments staged at my grandparents' newfound home in South Carolina. Each image exists as a reflection on the effects of time and place in relation to diasporic peoples, undergoing secondhand and worlds apart formative experiences instrumental to the fabric of my caregivers' identities, and ultimately my own, in stark contrast to the colonized histories we are presented with in our new place of residence.