Self-initiated portrait of Larry Itlong, the head of the Agricultural Workers Organization Committee, a group of primarily Filipino farmworkers that started the Delano Grape Strike and West Coast Labor Movement.
Self-initiated cover illustration/design for Neil Gaiman’s short story, “Down to a Sunless Sea”
Self-Initiated editorial illustration on the Nautilus article "Artificial Intelligence is Already Weirdly Inhuman".
Bond is a 104 page visual essay that explores intersectionality via mixed racialness and queerness within the category “Asian American”. A variety of analog mediums were combined with digital image-making processes to create the illustrations, which at times are more literal and in line with the text and at other moments more metaphorical and symbolic. The text is comprised of selected passages from relevant readings and transcriptions of interviews conducted with friends and family. The choice of readings is meant to reflect my own experience of learning about these topics of race and sexuality through reading the experiences of others, and I picked passages that were key in helping me to understand myself.
Selection of interior spreads from "Fish Out of Water", a children's book developed and illustrated with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association for the California Elementary school system to educate students about salmon in the California landscape and the struggle salmon populations face.
Illustration for the “Heartbeat” show at Land PDX. A testament to those whose identities and expression of identity breaks the rigid expectations of the gender binary, and the power that comes from within these individuals as they live their true, authentic selves.
Personal illustration on the disintegration of relationships.
Self-intiated portrait of LA based electronic musician, Mark Redito.
Personal Illustration on memory and people from the past.
Personal illustration about stress.
Self-initiated illustration and mock-up on a the Futurism article "China’s “Social Credit System” Will Rate How Valuable You Are as a Human".
Self-initiated narrative illustration based off a scene from "Peter and the Wolf".
Self initiated book cover Illustration and re-design for House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.
"Split" is an accordion book/visual essay based on the experience of growing up mixed race. Personal imagery/symbols were used alongside poems with text sampled from "Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World" by Sharon H Chang.
Self-intiated book cover illustration and re-design for J.D. Salinger's classic novel, Catcher in the Rye, in the style of The Folio Society.
