Kerr Cirilo

As We Mourn Other Suns comes from a continued rumination on the conditions of the systems that support the human body (Both exterior: State and interior: family); a contemplation on the ongoing processes involved in the colonization of a lived experience; and an ongoing interrogation of the role of images in constructing, re-constructing, and ultimately policing (and self-policing) an identity articulation. With this being said, these images have been an embrace of playing with the tools I mean to critique. While I am heavily invested in the mechanics of the identification photograph, I have also been questioning the meaning of America (and the Philippines) in my work both as subject and as imaginary. While the recurring subject depicts my figure and face, the images speak to larger systems of circulation, particularly that of bodies and people.