Flip-pant 
Star, Pyramid, and Rectangular Prism | Outlying Exhibition | Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL

Flip-pant combines traditional Filipino craft-based making with the shapes associated with instruction in design fundamentals and colors associated with print production. It presents the traditional star shape as well as new forms, facilitated by modifications made to the core module shape. The word Flip, defined as turning something over, is also an anti-Filipino term and sentiment but has been widely reclaimed by Filipino-Americans.

Flip-pant is a component of Outlying, our solo exhibition that was held at Seerveld Gallery, organized by Jean Carey. Outside of common design practice and common design formats, the works developed for Outlying stem from personal interests in and notions of identity and popular culture, whimsy and improvisation, as well as experimental work with language and typography.