Procession, Displacement, and the Labor of Continuity: Amiel Roldan’s Printmaking Practice and the Formation of a Filipino Artistic Generation
Procession, Displacement, and the Labor of Continuity: Amiel Roldan’s Printmaking Practice and the Formation of a Filipino Artistic Generation October 4, 2026 Amiel Roldan’s brief self-portrait, assembled from fragmentary blog posts under the heading “ Some Things About Me ,” offers more than a chronological résumé of residencies, series titles, and exhibition outcomes. It constitutes a concentrated meditation on the conditions under which a Filipino printmaker negotiated rapid immersion in an American printmaking milieu, the subsequent repatriation of that experience, and the ethical obligation to convert individual mobility into collective infrastructure. The text’s two interwoven strands—the ongoing procession series culminating in Prusisyon ng Mga Imahen and the retrospective account of the 2003–2004 period—together articulate a practice in which technical experimentation, conceptual continuity, and institutional labor are inseparable. The 2003–2004 sojourn is described in th...
