Hello! I’m Susan
I’m a multidisciplinary documenter, weaving research, storytelling, and visual work.
Skills
- Documentation, Photography, Illustration
- Web Development
- Design
- Problem Solving
Background
Susan is a Filipino artmaker, writer, and researcher whose work traverses the intersection of visual culture, political critique, and historical inquiry. Trained in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman and currently pursuing a master’s degree in Art History, she blends academic rigor with a realist artistic practice grounded in watercolor and oil painting.
Her work explores how neoliberalism and globalization impact the creative economy—particularly in Southeast Asia—and interrogates the commodification of art and cultural labor under late capitalism. As an activist and cultural worker, Susan is deeply engaged with issues of human rights, environmental justice, and cultural sovereignty, seeking to understand and resist how market forces shape artistic expression and erase historical memory.
She brings a multidisciplinary lens informed by Marxist theory, postcolonial thought, and service to the People, situating her art and writing within broader struggles for social transformation. Her creative and academic pursuits extend into the digital space, as she continues to train in open-source technologies, WordPress development, Python, and digital archiving—tools she sees as essential for building counter-hegemonic platforms and narratives.
Multilingual and rooted in the realities of the Global South, Susan’s practice is both local and global, traditional and experimental. She aspires to write, document, and create with integrity and purpose—art that remembers, resists, and reimagines.