KAPWA: POSTCARDS FROM MENTAL LANDSCAPES
THE KAPWA OF "POSTCARDS FROM MENTAL LANDSCAPES" June 2023: A Group Exhibition Featuring Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Ulysses Duterte, Jr., Paul Hawkins, Geof Huth, harry k stammer, Julia Rose Lewis, Michelangelo Mayo, April Milszeski, Anne Murray, and Phyllis Shaw. Exhibition Statement When I opened up Submissions for this exhibit, I didn't know what to expect, in part because I deliberately avoided a theme. I was open to anything because of my faith in "Kapwa," a Filipino indigenous concept whereby one sees one's self in the Other , a notion I translate into the interconnection of all things and creatures across all of time. But when I started seeing the postcards as they arrived, they were of such variety that I was initially at a loss on how to approach them all as part of a single exhibit. The postcards ranged over original art to prints to actual postcards, from drawings to collage to visual poetry, and with artists ranging from the emerging artists to t