//mabuhay
//welcome
//wusrlygud!
//mabuhay //welcome //wusrlygud!
Sino//Who?Kayla May Paz Suarez is a 1st generation PilipinUH American multidisciplinary artist, born and raised on Ohlone Land (East Bay/San Lorenzo, CA). I am currently settled//based in Spanish Harlem, New York (Munsee Lenape Land).
I am dedicated to authentic storytelling by way of decolonizing media and communications. Some of my original solo work includes, ‘Say it With Me: Words of Affirmations for a colonized child’, 'The Kaylamay Project: Come laugh at my trauma' and her ongoing web series 'Expresive AF’k / 5 Ft. Lumpia’
I have a passion for new work on stage and on the screen and I’m committed to sharing my heritage by inviting Kapwa//audiences on a journey of community healing via rituals, dance, and storytelling.
Bakit//Why?
MABUHAY. Yo! WELCOME. WUSRLYGUD?!
k may here (in NY probs) and thank you for coming to my corner of the digital web//universe. As an artist I have been narrowing in on my personal mission to:
Decolonizing or untangling expression and creativity by redefining and reframing identity.
How? By re-plotting my roots // to grow stories // Ancestral lineage // legacy through creation.
Decolonizing expression means challenging and undoing the cultural, social, and political norms and values that have been imposed by colonialism and imperialism, and creating space for diverse and marginalized voices and perspectives to be heard and represented in creative expression. It involves dismantling the power structures that have historically privileged certain forms of artistic expression over others and reclaiming cultural practices and traditions that have been erased or suppressed by colonialism.
creative.media.self.love.body.mind.spiwit
