Portable Sculpture No. 2
cardboard, manila paper, wheatpaste (2024)Portable Sculpture No. 2 is an ephemeral sculpture that I carried for a week around Flemingdon Park, the neighborhood I reside in Toronto. One of the goals is to find spaces where it could fit and belong.
Inspired by the Filipino tradition of using ‘balik-balayan’ boxes, packages sent by overseas Filipinos to their families back home in the Philippines, this work is about the constant movements, transitions, adaptations of my identity as an immigrant. It is about my struggle of finding home and my inability to truly settle down.
The sculpture is made of cardboard boxes fused with wheat paste, and Manila paper, a type of paper made during America’s colonization of the Philippines.
This piece is also about my guilt of not sending any of those boxes home, and the guilt of losing touch of my friends, family and relatives.