Shoji Arts Blog
Happy API Heritage Month! Here are some community resources I’ve compiled, just in case you are interested.
Read More
It is not enough to look at hate with a racial subcategory directed toward Asians, much as there are important issues to speak on with regard to cultural portrayals or misrepresentation or underrepresentation in the media, cultural appropriation, erasure, and so on.
Read More
Knolwedge is Power. What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, and José Rizal have in common? Read more to find out. In today’s post I honor José Rizal, conceived by many people as the beloved national hero of the Philippines.
Read More
Our Body, the earth, is a sacred land. The biggest lesson that dawned on me in 2020 is the importance of connecting intimately with the land and culture of where one’s “from” (one’s “roots”), as well as connecting intimately with the land and culture of where one “is” (one’s inhabitance).
Read More
I want to say that the deep-double-standard of the USA is being white, vs. being-anything-but-white. I’m going to try to write this diplomatically; in some ways I feel privileged to understand this because I know what it means in many ways to be white. Therefore I am a responsibility bearer to ending white silence. And I know what it means to be not-white as well.
Read More
There’s Lola, my grandmother, with my brother and her anthirium. It’s Christmas in Naples, Florida, 1988. I know I’ve been into the retro photos lately, as my aunt has passed them on. But upon seeing the anthirium plant, I couldn’t help but post again. I have an anthirium in my home right now and also…
Read More
My aunt in Tampa and I were going through memory lane yesterday. Here are pictures of my grandmother (Lola) in her Naples, Florida garden in 1988 with my cousins, four years after she moved permanently to the U.S., and later at Christmas time in 1999 with my aunt and uncle. You can see a hint…
Read More
??❤️ This bouquet influenced my latest adoption of an anthirium houseplant for my home. My uncle, Tito Ding, brought these flowers to a family grave on Valentine’s Day while visiting our ancestors at Loyola Memorial Park and Manila Memorial Park in ?Metro Manila, Philippines. ??? Here is an homage to these ancestors. You’ll also see…
Read More
My aunt unearthed this treasure of a photograph. I feel inclined to share it today, my final day here in the Philippines before taking off for the United States. I might be late for International Women’s Day, but not for Women’s History Month. My grandmother, Lola Clavelina “Belen” Antiquera Grajo, was something special. Born in…
Read More