MURALS
The Gateway
2025 | ShopColumbia, Chicago, IL
This temporary mural was a part of an installation in the 2025 Graduate Showcase at ShopColumbia, Columbia College Chicago.
The Gateway was meant to act as a portal into my artwork included in the exhibition. My goal with my work is to transport the viewer into the fantasy worlds I create within my art. The goal for this installation was to create a visual, interactive representation of that transportation and overlap between fantasy and reality.
My intention with this mural was to create a larger, overarching piece for the installation to draw the viewer in closer—using The Gateway as its actual namesake.
In theme with the rest of the installation utilizing found objects and materials, the mural was painted with leftover paints sourced from CCC’s Makerspace.
Chrysalis ii
2024 | HAUS, Quincy Wong Center, Chicago, IL
Chrysalis II is a part of a larger collaboration between One Summer Chicago and the Wabash Arts Corridor. Several student artists were commissioned to create original murals to occupy the walls of HAUS, with one week to execute the installation. The project was sponsored by Behr Paint and The Home Depot.
This mural is intended to represent growth, rebirth, and incubation. It is a stage of metamorphosis, wherein the figure exists in a limbo, or an in-between state. While the figure is stationary, it is meant to show the developmental stage that many people find themselves in—where we are static yet filled with potential, on the way to our next stage of growth.
Sandok at palayok
2024 | The Rizal Center, Chicago, IL
Commissioned by The Rizal Center, this mural was a collaborative project between myself and artist Abby Linatoc Mendoza.
The mural is located on the kitchen doors within the Center. The Design features regional dishes from the three main island groups of the Philippines: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The dishes include adobo, kare kare, and sinigang na hipon, each inside the three clay pots (“palayok”). The ladles, or “sandok” hover over the pots.
We utilized numerous online archives for reference for the design.
The Rizal Center is a Filipino Community Center with a rich history. This project is part of a larger effort to revitalize and grow the Center.