From 2016 to 2018, I worked on a research project on my hometown, Albay. This unsurprisingly culminated in my MA thesis, Locating the Community in Curation, a study that sought out places, narratives, and resources in the fulfillment of a curatorial project with partner communities whose spaces and stories are continuously defined by typhoons and lahar flows.

Years later, I find myself in familiar arenas, perhaps out of wanting to find a language for the narratives and practices I had encountered back then. This return was additionally sparked by the question of anger.

In 2022, I tried to condense my graduate school thesis into a journal article.

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“It is brown and plain like the Filipino…” (Doreen Fernandez, Palayok, 2000)