"La Catedral" is part of a larger series of work entitled "Mapas y Planos" (Maps and Plans) inspired by my research at Spanish colonial archives. The series is an investigation in to the visual history of Philippines as a nation from my position as a diaspora artist and researcher. Philippine nationality poses an interesting case study as it did not exist as a nation until Spanish colonial conquest.

These pieces combine some of the first drawn maps of the Philippines from the Archivo General de Indias with images of current day Seville, Spain. Seville was the capital of the Spanish Colonial Empire when the Philippines was first formed in the sixteenth century. The archived images that I use date back to as early as 1555 and represent the first visual imaginings of South East Asia by the West. The process of making these works combines mixed media techniques of painting, photography, digital manipulation and printing.