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Approaching Surface Level: An Interview with Celine Lee
By Sean Carballo

How Gianne Encarnacion traces the worlds within
By The Cartellino Team
In the past year, the artist and illustrator’s works have come to life as immersive dioramas, joining Cartellino…

Once/Is A Girl: On Marionne Contreras’ Poetry has left me 
By Zea Asis

Stitching Her Own Image: On Maricar Tolentino’s Sipat
By Zea Asis

Nina Garibay and the art of piecing a presence together
By The Cartellino Team
Her Cartellino Solo Release, I’m…

Participating in the anti-monument in You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
"The anti-monument is understated. It listens to the land and it listens to the people, creating space for long-marginalized histories and alterities…

The Nebulous Aftermath: Rebirth in the Works of Amy Aragon, Jay Ticar, and Maria Cruz
By Mara Fabella
"It remains the keen ability of the artist to condense this vast spectrum of stories into pools of color, form, and…

The building blocks of Baraks: Artists at the heart of the collective/space
By Lk Rigor
“Fundamentally, artists are at the heart of this collective/space, so we understand the economics of how it is…

How farmers and cultural workers teamed up to preserve Bulacan’s agricultural, built, and artistic heritage 
By Pao Vergara
“Tayo ang bukid,” (“we are the meadow”) reads…

Imaging faith: A look at Lyndon Maglalang's Preparatory Measures
By The Cartellino Team
The collection of acrylic and dry paint compositions continues the documentation of the artist’s journey toward…

Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People
By The Cartellino Team
“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It has long been an important part of Philippine…

Writer and director Alex Westfall critically imagines history through archives and fiction
By Zea Asis
“A lot of my work stems from the existential question 'How did I get here? [...] What would have happened had this dictatorship not happened,…

Artist Interview: Sam Feleo on Process and Her Next Steps
By Jose Naval
"In a way, the process became a process of care: about caring, about pruning, about nurturing. The…

Printmaking Illustrations: The self-published books and full-colored prints of Keith Gum
By Marz Aglipay
Unlike artists books that are often focused on highlighting works of an artist, Keith’s…

Ardent readings
By Carlos Quijon
"Ardent readings lead us to the emergence of something exemplary or to finding felicity in forms or articulations not readily recognizable as such."

Art Writing and ‘Stilled Lives’
By Lyra G
On days we remain trapped, we take notice of what we will eventually leave behind.

Luck at First Strike: Three Winning Filipina Printmakers at International Print Exhibition
By Marz Aglipay
“Striking” is a printmaking term, meaning to lay paper on an inked plate to make a mark. It is also a convenient word to describe the winning…

Constructing Myths through Unconfined Cinema
By Isabel Cabal
Cinema is its own instrument and instrumentalist in storytelling. The three films Erwin Romulo arranged reversed the process: what is usually the impetus…

On the Materiality of Cloth in Dino Gabito's ‘Threads’
By Shireen Co
Gabito’s preoccupation with cloth focuses attention to an almost rudimentary level—devoid…

Expanding the Tapestry: Modern Myth-Making with Philippine Spirits
By Mara Fabella
Jean Karl Gaverza engages with local myth and folklore -- and invites readers to do the same.

A Site of Curiosities: Soft Power Peripherals
By Marz Aglipay
If you’re reading this article from your workstation, take a good look at your surroundings.…