Josephine Turalba
Moon-sun Monsoon, 2025
Embroidered hand-dyed piña-silk panel in deep teal
247 x 76 cm
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This panel evokes the monsoon, a season linking islands through wind, tide, and fire beneath water. Deities and rituals gather across archipelagos: Babaeng Araw and Lalaki sa Buwan balance sun...
This panel evokes the monsoon, a season linking islands through wind, tide, and fire beneath water. Deities and rituals gather across archipelagos: Babaeng Araw and Lalaki sa Buwan balance sun and moon, guiding tides; Fūjin releases storms into the sky.
Ritual and myth mirror these elemental flows. In Nakanojo, Yudate Kagura arcs boiling water into the air, turning steam into prayer; at Taal, apoy sa ilalim ng tubig recalls fire held beneath calm waters. Together, these gestures imagine the monsoon as relation—sun and moon, wind and tide, fire and water. Breath curls like thread, storms fold islands into cycles, and memory circulates through rhythm, pressure, and return.
Embroidered Texts:
● Daan ng ulan (Path of rain)
● Diwa ng hangin (Spirit of wind)
● Breath curls like thread through water.
● Monsoon begins with a glance—moon pulls, sun warms.
● Mula sa hininga ng alon at bulong ng ulap—alaala ng apoy ay lumiyab.
–- (From the breath of waves and whisper of clouds—the memory of fire ignites.)
Ritual and myth mirror these elemental flows. In Nakanojo, Yudate Kagura arcs boiling water into the air, turning steam into prayer; at Taal, apoy sa ilalim ng tubig recalls fire held beneath calm waters. Together, these gestures imagine the monsoon as relation—sun and moon, wind and tide, fire and water. Breath curls like thread, storms fold islands into cycles, and memory circulates through rhythm, pressure, and return.
Embroidered Texts:
● Daan ng ulan (Path of rain)
● Diwa ng hangin (Spirit of wind)
● Breath curls like thread through water.
● Monsoon begins with a glance—moon pulls, sun warms.
● Mula sa hininga ng alon at bulong ng ulap—alaala ng apoy ay lumiyab.
–- (From the breath of waves and whisper of clouds—the memory of fire ignites.)