Usbong is Tagalog for "bud," the moment a flower first breaks open.
I dug into Flora de Filipinas (1877–1883), a 19th-century botanical atlas of Philippine plants, through the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikimedia Commons. I turned its hand-colored plates into a fictional...
You've tasted the chocolate. Now, you want to see where it grows 🌳
Meet Nasam-it Farm, a family cacao farm in the Philippines, planted in 1960 by a grandfather who was told tobacco would pay better. His granddaughter brought the grove back as a bean-to-bar brand. Nasam-it is...
The Lover’s Eye was never just a portrait. It was a portrait of a gaze. The art of looking back.
For the #FLORAMuseumChallenge, I chose the 19th-century Lover’s Eye Bracelet, an intimate object featuring a miniature of a loved one’s eye. Pieces like these were worn close to the...
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