Power and Protection: Kalayaan (Freedom), 2025, Metal Casts on Wood Mounts, Polytych 25 x 30 cm
Inspired by the agimat or anting-anting, amulets of protection in the Filipino spiritual tradition. This series reimagines these symbols for the present. The work honours a spiritual legacy and image base which predates and endures despite colonial erasure, while still acknowledging the ever present colonisational reverbarations which affect us today. Using these amulets to envision freedom not merely as resistance, but as reclamation of inner sovereignty and ancestral pride.
