An ongoing series of recreations of anthropological photos of Igorot people using charcoal and paper mache on canvas. 

This series comes from the artist’s ruminations about the concept of the gaze, othering, and where truth resides when she looks at historical images of her ancestors, which were taken by white Western photographers. 

The works are reminiscent of darkened, muddy waters, recalling the ways that indigenous identities have become obfuscated by colonization, globalization, and migration. The titles of each work contain a reference to water, and a reference to the captions given to each photograph by the photographers themselves. The series title Reflecting Pool also recalls the character Narcissus, proposed as the patron saint of anthropology in the book Cannibal Metaphysics.