This art project of mine started with my intent on creating art that inspires, art that brings light, positivity, and unity.  Part of my art journey, was me understanding myself, my values, aside from my creative tendencies.  It is by leaning into these did things become clear to me.  

- I wanted art that reflects my value and things that are important to me

- I wanted it simple yet powerful

- I wanted it to have a theme and within that theme, I can do whatever I want creatively

In 2018, is when Ascension arouse.  I took aesthetic inspiration from a pin on Pinterest and I knew the moment I saw it, that it was something I wanted to recreate.  This is when the series took final form.

The image is set, but creating it myself is another set of challenge.   I've had to experiment on using different types of medium.  

Within the 7 years, I was on and off with my art.  I didn't see it as a way for me to play, but it was almost a burden for me to act on it.  So it took me so long to really get serious with it.  Researching on techniques, and using compounds that give me the aesthetic that I'm going for.  It was a long and dragging process.  Sometimes I would forget about it for months, and would come back to it again whenever I feel that elusive need to put the art out there.  But something about year 2025 gave me the fire to really pursue this seriously and materialize it.  It was just time.

Like any endeavor, there are some steps that I knew I should take, and despite knowing, there's still a big portion of this path that is still unknown and that makes it scary and exciting at the same time.

Despite that, I know that if I'll just do what I need to do, and fulfill the vision in me to the best of my ability, then I can say that I'll be the happiest. 

THE VISION

There was a steady unfolding of ideas through the years.  It wasn't something that came to me at one go.  For some reason,  from working with clay and iron oxides, I knew that I leaned in the colors black, white, gold, and red.  At that time, there wasn't any story yet.  Just a collage of color themes that I was going for.  At first, I was even open to blue, but I stripped it down to the original colors intuitively.  The story of Ascension had always been paired with transformation.  So I gave story behind these colors, with white, a transformation from glory to glory, black, from depression to drive, and red from rage to redemption.  I've wanted it to be 3 as that for me, is a magic number.  However, I knew I had to work with gold as well.   So I came up with the story on Alchemy.   

The more I got into it, the more that alchemy came up.  When I read about it, it came to me that the narrative could also fit my art.  But basically for me, Ascension is a story of transformation from these 3 feelings that we go through as humans - feeling of elation, depression and rage.  Through this, I wanted to emphasize how same we are, that we all go through this intimate and universal process of transformation. 

Hoping that under this light, we are open to reach out and collaborate with each other to create a thriving world.  This is something that I feel most needed especially during this time when we are faced with a lot of threats.  Together we can survive.  Together we can create something better for ourselves and the world - that's the vision.