ASCII Anting-Anting

ASCII Anting-Anting is a shirt+zine research project that explores Filipino vernacular spiritual objects, called ‘anting-anting’ or ‘agimat’. With a particular focus on the vests that many working class revolutionaries wore into battle, the motifs wind through Filipino saints, colonization, cultural syncretism, and much more! One thing that’s interesting about these garments is that they combine catholic and animistic imagery with vernacular language and bits of Latin. In many ways the garments themselves are artifacts of cultural and spiritual processes of ‘remix.’ I chose to render them as ascii drawings to evoke a sense of diasporic distance and reference the digital means by which I connect with these stories!

A new poster, titled ‘Pilipinas from afar’ was recently exhibited at the Asian Elite Tour’s poster show curated by Body&Forma. This poster pays homage to the Filipino Diaspora combining ascii art and filipino cultural imagery. Woohoo!


It’ll be printed and for sale at some upcoming zine/book fairs so keep your eye out

BONER 4EVER shirt

Crew-neck t-shirt featuring ascii art of Philadelphia’s BONER 4EVER building set in a utopic neighborhood scene with little houses and trees.

Printed on Gildan natural cotton t-shirts with black ink.

Screenprinted by artist by hand. Very minor inconsistencies might be present (but I’m a good screenprinter, you won’t even notice ︎)

Read more about Philly’s iconic BONER 4EVER building here.

$30 + Shipping

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Please allow 2-3 weeks for production and shipping.

Side Projects is a container for Olivia's publishing practice. Here you'll find prints and zines and other things that feel a little tangential to the main action. Tinkering and puttering happen often and everything's for sale. Its name describes the marginal nature of creative work — every project becomes a side project when an artist does too many things at once. And sometimes the most fruitful creative activity is the stuff you’re doing on the side!

Walking//Mapping Zine

2022
5” x 7”
36 pages

An exploration of different neighborhoods in Philadelphia notated through small landmarks. The story follows the directions of the arrows as I walk around East Kensington and Fishtown. It continues by bringing you through the digital google maps street-view of west Philadelphia, commenting on the “seams” where time/season/and composite photos of the neighborhood change. It also discusses the difference in the “feeling” of navigating digitally vs physically, where a phenomenological experience of space is lost.