Animated sapphic short film "The Lovers" will be free-to-watch on Youtube starting August 30. Set in a dark fantasy Philippines, the story follows a romance between a Binondo seafood chef and a siren.
This one's about my struggles w/ health anxiety & suicidal thoughts. Sometimes it hurt so deeply and felt so all-consuming that I would get an intrusive wish to see it manifest into something tangible and terrible and impossible to ignore, both for me and for everyone around me.
What I wanted to express in this painting is: the fire ignited in the heart burns all the way to the brain, while the rest of the body remains cold. Because at the end of anger, there is really nothing but sadness.