Ultimately, ang hope ko naman for the future is to realize kung ano yung potential ko talaga...why I was put on this earth.
We can learn so much from our ancestors. I think the new generation needs to look to the past to inform their work. If we let the new and old worlds to co-exist, the possibilities for craft are endless. This is my philosophy.
There is a whole world inside me that’s desperate to come out. I found a way to communicate this world through jewelry. For me it is a language.
I think one of the roles traditional craft plays within my own practice my work is sustainability. Having a sense of longevity within the work that I do is really important to me, because it is touching on the culture and heritage behind glass making and having the ability to implement digital-based concepts and designs and really utilizing a contemporary style is really a testament to traditional making.
Batik matters to me not just because it is part of our heritage but it is an art form. It is a way for me to express myself on the canvass of the fabric.
Everything fell into place when I found a book called Slow Stitch, which talks about how you should take the time to do things properly, to create a balance with what we produce, the importance of doing things with our hands, the importance of craft, the importance of materials and recycling. So that book helped me a lot to lay the foundations of the philosophy I wanted to adopt, which was to concentrate on the quality of the products.
