A FULL-ISH CEREMONY is a performative sculptural work that failingly attempts to inflate a Barong Tagalog shirt clipped into a common household standing fan. The whole apparatus oscillates left and right while the torso and arms irregularly bobble up and down. The endless action apes a foolish inflatable dancing mascot but now in a solemn, ceremonial bow to the viewer— over-inflating viewership and the performance/dramatization of identity within a white colonial gaze, while also deflating that power through whimsical mockery.
A FULL-ISH CEREMONY, 2018, Barong Tagalog shirt, fan, & wind. Photographed by Alexander Taylor.