Kill Joy

Kill Joy's work is an interpretation of world mythology and a study of ancient symbols. Her practice centers around relief printmaking, painting, and puppet making. This work involves printing posters for people-led campaigns, youth workshops, painting community murals and constructing fantastical puppet theater. Mediums with a bold, graphic quality speak to the sort of narratives she enjoys exploring. Her work sits at the intersection where jungle meets desert.

She was raised in Texas, but her family is from the archipelago known as the Philippines. Joy devotes time to thinking about and working with different cultural groups managing challenges and issues of the diaspora and also of the struggles faced by communities rooted in their homeland. Because community is intrinsically linked to the land, her work also incorporates themes and elements from the natural world. Stories are often told in imaginative settings: singing about Earth magic that is available to everyone, but often forgotten or hidden.

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