Hodder Fellowship & Residency

AMIEL GERALD A. ROLDAN

Hodder Fellowship Application Package  |  Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University  |  2027–28

Artist–Curator–Cultural Worker  ·  Metro Manila & Mandaluyong City, Philippines

amiel_roldan@outlook.com  ·  amiel.roldan@gmail.com

 

PROJECT PROPOSAL

INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS: The Rubbercut as Counter-Archive and Ritual of Care for HIV Awareness

I propose to spend my Hodder year creating INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS, a new body of relief rubbercut prints that reframes HIV awareness in the Philippines as a problem of memory, not just information.

For two decades my printmaking has engaged politics, faith, denial, and the everyday. Using discarded school erasers—a precarious, democratic material—I carve images that are then printed by hand. The medium is crucial: the eraser is meant to erase, yet I make it remember. The cut is irreversible.

The Philippines confronts a crisis where erasure is literal. HIV cases have risen dramatically since 2010, disproportionately among youth 15–24, while stigma, disinformation, and residual colonial morality erase bodies from public discourse. My earlier HIV works, produced in collaboration with community initiatives including Hands Organization, used the small print as poster and protest. At Princeton I will expand this into a counter-archive.

The fellowship’s studious leisure is essential because I am shifting from production to infrastructure. I will conduct three interwoven research strands.

First, Material Research in the Visual Arts Program. I will experiment with large-scale vulcanized rubber reliefs, moving from intimate prints to walkable matrices, and with non-toxic, blood-mimetic inks derived from archival research. Printing becomes performance, drawing on Catholic flagellation and folk healing rituals I have studied.

Second, Archival Research. At Firestone Library’s Graphic Arts Collection, the Cotsen Children’s Library ephemera holdings, and the Princeton University Art Museum print study room, I will study how early AIDS activism prints (Gran Fury, Philippine 1990s health posters) functioned as counter-publics. This research will inform a new annotated visual lexicon of Filipino HIV vernacular—hiya (shame), dugo (blood), kapos (lack), kalinga (care)—each becoming an iconography series.

Third, Public Health Humanities. Through engagement with the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Program in Global Health, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, I will consult scholars on stigma and care so the work remains ethically grounded and non-extractive.

The outcome will be approximately 25 new large-scale prints, a monograph of prints and annotations titled Rubber as Witness, and the prototype for a Portable Press for Care—an open-source mobile kit with carved blocks, bilingual Tagalog/English printing guides, and care-referral information designed for rural health units, SOGIE centers, and university health offices.

The Hodder does not ask for finished exhibitions; it asks for promise realized through time. My practice as an artist-curator-cultural worker has always argued that organizing, teaching, and building cultural memory constitute creative labor. This project consolidates that argument: the print becomes both artwork and tool for solidarity. I seek not a studio merely to produce more of the same, but a year in which the rubber can remember more deeply.

 

**INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS: The Rubbercut as Counter-Archive and Ritual of Care for HIV Awareness**

 

I propose to spend my Hodder year creating *Indelible Impressions*, a new body of relief rubbercut prints that reframes HIV awareness in the Philippines as a problem of memory, not just information.¹

 

For two decades my printmaking has engaged politics, faith, denial, and the everyday. Using discarded school erasers—a precarious, democratic material—I carve images that are then printed by hand. The medium is crucial: the eraser is meant to erase, yet I make it remember. The cut is irreversible.

 

The Philippines confronts a crisis where erasure is literal. HIV cases have risen dramatically since 2010, disproportionately among youth aged 15–24, while stigma, disinformation, and residual colonial morality erase bodies from public discourse.² My earlier HIV works, produced in collaboration with community initiatives including Hands Organization, used the small print as poster and protest. At Princeton I will expand this into a counter-archive.

 

The fellowship’s “studious leisure” is essential because I am shifting from production to infrastructure. I will conduct three interwoven research strands.

 

First, Material Research in the Visual Arts Program. I will experiment with large-scale vulcanized rubber reliefs, moving from intimate prints to walkable matrices, and with non-toxic, blood-mimetic inks derived from archival research. Printing becomes performance, drawing on Catholic flagellation and folk healing rituals I have studied.³

 

Second, Archival Research. At Firestone Library’s Graphic Arts Collection, the Cotsen Children’s Library ephemera holdings, and the Princeton University Art Museum print study room, I will study how early AIDS activism prints (Gran Fury, Philippine 1990s health posters) functioned as counter-publics.⁴ This research will inform a new annotated visual lexicon of Filipino HIV vernacular—*hiya* (shame), *dugo* (blood), *kapos* (lack), *kalinga* (care)—each becoming an iconography series.

 

Third, Public Health Humanities. Through engagement with the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Program in Global Health, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, I will consult scholars on stigma and care so the work remains ethically grounded and non-extractive.

 

The outcome will be approximately 25 new large-scale prints, a monograph of prints and annotations titled *Rubber as Witness*, and the prototype for a Portable Press for Care—an open-source mobile kit with carved blocks, bilingual Tagalog/English printing guides, and care-referral information designed for rural health units, SOGIE centers, and university health offices.

 

The Hodder does not ask for finished exhibitions; it asks for promise realized through time. My practice as an artist-curator-cultural worker has always argued that organizing, teaching, and building cultural memory constitute creative labor. This project consolidates that argument: the print becomes both artwork and tool for solidarity. I seek not a studio merely to produce more of the same, but a year in which the rubber can remember more deeply.

 

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**Footnotes**

 

1. The proposal aligns with the Hodder Fellowship’s emphasis on “studious leisure” for artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects (Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University).

 

2. UNAIDS has documented that new HIV infections in the Philippines more than quadrupled since 2010, with a 216% increase among those aged 15–24; the country has been identified as having one of the fastest-growing epidemics in the Asia-Pacific and Western Pacific regions. Department of Health (Philippines) Epidemiology Bureau surveillance reports and UNICEF adolescent incidence data further confirm the disproportionate burden on youth and the shift toward younger age groups. See also longitudinal analyses showing sustained upward trends contrary to global patterns.

 

3. Philippine Catholic Holy Week practices of flagellation (*penitensya*) and related folk healing rituals form a longstanding cultural repertoire of bodily inscription, pain, and communal care that the project engages as material and conceptual parallel rather than direct appropriation.

 

4. Gran Fury, the artist collective that emerged from ACT UP in 1988, produced iconic agitprop prints and public interventions (e.g., *Silence = Death*, *Kissing Doesn’t Kill*, *Women Don’t Get AIDS. They Just Die From It*) that operated as counter-publics. Philippine 1990s health posters issued by the National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program (Department of Health) and related campaigns are preserved in collections such as the Wellcome Collection, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and the University of Rochester’s AIDS Education Posters archive; these vernacular materials supply local graphic precedents for the proposed annotated lexicon.

 

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**Chicago-Style Bibliography (Notes-Bibliography)**

 

Department of Health, Epidemiology Bureau (Philippines). *HIV & AIDS Surveillance of the Philippines* (quarterly and annual reports, 2020–2026). Manila: Department of Health.

 

Gran Fury. Collective works and statements, 1988–1995. Documented in institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Museum, and Poster House (New York).

 

Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. Hodder Fellowship program guidelines and announcements. https://arts.princeton.edu.

 

National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program (Philippines). Health education posters and materials, ca. 1990s. Held in Wellcome Collection; U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Collections; University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, AIDS Education Collection.

 

UNAIDS. Regional and country reports on HIV in Asia-Pacific, including statements on the Philippines’ epidemic trajectory since 2010. Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

 

UNICEF. *Key HIV Epidemiology Indicators for Children and Adolescents Aged 0–19, 2000–2025*. Data and analysis on adolescent incidence in Southeast Asia.

 

Additional practitioner and community references (primary): 

Author’s prior collaborative print projects with community initiatives (including Hands Organization) and process documentation. 

Philippine cultural studies on *penitensya*, folk healing, and vernacular concepts of *hiya*, *dugo*, *kapos*, and *kalinga* (ethnographic and art-historical literature).

 

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**APA 7th Expanded Reference List (Alternative)**

 

Department of Health, Epidemiology Bureau. (2020–2026). *HIV & AIDS Surveillance of the Philippines* [Reports]. Manila: Department of Health.

 

Gran Fury. (1988–1995). Activist prints and public campaigns [Collection materials]. Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Museum; Poster House.

 

Lewis Center for the Arts. (n.d.). *Hodder Fellowship*. Princeton University. https://arts.princeton.edu

 

National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program. (ca. 1990s). Health education posters [Archival materials]. Wellcome Collection; National Library of Medicine; University of Rochester AIDS Education Collection.

 

UNAIDS. (various years). *HIV data and reports: Asia-Pacific and Philippines*. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

 

UNICEF. (2025/2026). *Key HIV epidemiology indicators for children and adolescents aged 0–19, 2000–2025*.

 

Roldan, A. G. A. (ongoing). Process repositories, collaborative projects with community initiatives (including Hands Organization), and reflective writing on printmaking as cultural infrastructure.

 

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**Source Categories Summary (Art Practitioner / Cultural Worker Framing)**

 

- **Public-health epidemiology**: DOH Epidemiology Bureau surveillance reports; UNAIDS regional analyses; UNICEF adolescent data. These establish the factual urgency without sensationalism. 

- **Activist print history**: Gran Fury / ACT UP materials (primary visual and documentary sources in major museum and archival collections). 

- **Philippine vernacular graphic history**: 1990s DOH National AIDS/STD posters and related campaigns preserved in international health and special-collections archives. 

- **Institutional resources at Princeton**: Firestone Library Graphic Arts Collection, Cotsen Children’s Library ephemera, Princeton University Art Museum print study room (standard holdings for the proposed research). 

- **Cultural and ritual context**: Documented practices of Catholic flagellation and folk healing in the Philippines (engaged as parallel rather than extractive source). 

- **Practitioner primary sources**: Author’s prior collaborative works and process documentation, positioned as cultural-worker labor rather than self-promotion. 

 

This apparatus treats data as public evidence, historical prints as shared counter-public resources, and the artist’s own labor as infrastructural and ethical practice—consistent with the stance of an independent cultural worker who builds rather than extracts. Chicago is recommended for art-practice and humanities contexts; APA is supplied for interdisciplinary or public-health readers.

 

 

 

Full Essay with Embedded Footnote Markers

 

MARKA NG KATAWAN / IMPRINT OF CARE

The Rubbercut Body as Counter-Archive for HIV Awareness

Project Proposal for the Hodder Fellowship 

 

Amiel Gerald A. Roldan 

 

The 2026 HIV epidemic in the Philippines remains urgent. With 4,633 new HIV cases recorded in January–March 2026 alone and cumulative confirmed cases exceeding 168,000 since 1984, HIV in the Philippines is a crisis of stigma, silence, faith, and denial.¹ This proposal moves an existing HIV-awareness rubbercut practice beyond the awareness poster into three decisive new boundaries: from image to body-imprint; from print to infrastructure; and from local to translocal solidarity. 

 

Rubbercut is a low-tech, intimate, reproducible medium. Each cut is a scar; each print is a skin. The HIV body is not illustrated—it is imprinted. The technique itself becomes a metaphor for viral transmission, stigma-marking, and the possibility of healing through touch and repetition.² Aligned with the thesis that cultural work itself is creative work, the prints will function as building blocks for a community print shop, teaching kits, and an open-source archive rather than as isolated artworks. Building on longstanding relationships, the project links Manila and Iloilo with Philippine community-based organizations (including LoveYourself and PNAC partners) and international print communities.³ 

 

I bring a proven, multi-decade practice in which technical mastery, conceptual rigor, and cultural infrastructure work are inseparable. As a master printmaker in relief rubbercut, I sustain exclusive use of the medium for its speed, affordability, and DIY reproducibility, capable of producing large editions suitable for clinics, bars, schools, and public spaces. Technique is activism. As conceptual artist, researcher, and writer, I develop theoretical framing (Nodes of the Viral Body) connecting postcolonial discourse, cultural memory, and medical stigma, maintaining process repositories and reflective writing as integral practice. As artist–curator–cultural worker, I not only produce objects; I build cultural infrastructure—mobile exhibitions, community printing workshops, and ethical collaborations. Long-term thematic engagement with faith, religion, denial, courage, and everyday Filipino experience maps precisely onto the terrain where HIV stigma operates. International exchange capacity is grounded in prior work as an Asian Cultural Council Starr Foundation grantee (2003–04) and selection of my work as visual identity for the ACC Global Alumni Network.⁴ 

 

Residency Framework

Core artistic production will yield twenty new large-format relief rubbercut matrices (approximately 18 × 24 inches) organized under four thematic series: Dasal (Prayer/Faith), Pagtanggi (Denial/Refusal), Tapang (Courage), and Aruga (Care/Nurture). Innovations include skin-tone and blood-mimetic inks, latex-inspired papers, redaction and erasure techniques, and non-traditional supports such as clinical paper, barong fabric, condom wrappers, and Bureau of Quarantine forms. Large-scale public mural translation will adapt matrices to wall surfaces, continuing existing BOQ mural collaborations for HIV awareness. 

 

Research and archive components will compile a counter-archive of more than one hundred anonymous HIV narratives from Western Visayas and Metro Manila, printed as colophons or companion texts. Daily studio notes will be maintained as a process repository. Curatorial research will map Philippine HIV art history from 1980s initiatives through LoveYourself Pride exhibits to the present, positioning the rubbercut series within a longer continuum of cultural response.⁵ 

 

Public engagement includes three community rubbercut clinics titled *Maglimbag, Magmahal, Mabuhay*—hands-on workshops teaching at-risk youth, LGBTQIA+ communities, and health workers to carve and print their own awareness images, with participants leaving with low-cost take-home kits. A Mobile Print Chapel will stage pop-up exhibitions and free-distribution actions in non-gallery spaces: barangay halls, Bureau of Quarantine exteriors, Iloilo jeep terminals, and online carousels. A public talk, “Cultural Workers, Not Creatives: Printmaking as Public Health Infrastructure,” will extend reflective work presented at ILOMOCA 2025. 

 

Legacy outputs include an open-source print portfolio box of twelve selected prints donated to clinics, university museums, and the ACC archive; high-resolution scans and process videos shared via the ACC Global Alumni Network; and matrices remaining with the host institution or designated community partners for continued printing after the residency. 

 

Artist Statement

In 2003 I went to the United States as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow to observe how art can bridge local and global spaces. In 2026 I return to the most local of Philippine materials—a piece of rubber, a cutter, and my hands—to address one of the most urgent of bodies. The HIV crisis in the Philippines is not failing solely because of lack of information; it is failing because of lack of touch, of mark, of care made visible and communal. My relief rubbercut is both wound and witness. During this residency I will not make prints about HIV; I will make prints *as* HIV-awareness practice—reproducible, distributable, teachable, and caressable.⁶ 

 

As cultural worker and independent practitioner, I treat documentation, facilitation, pedagogy, and curation as creative labor equal to studio production. The practice privileges memory, postcolonial awareness, and the often-unseen labor that sustains the art ecosystem while maintaining critical distance from both market spectacle and institutional capture. *Marka ng Katawan / Imprint of Care* consolidates two decades of rubbercut practice, HIV-related visual advocacy, and cultural-worker infrastructure into a focused residency. It answers the present crisis not with more information alone, but with a tactile, teachable, and communal form of care—the imprint that remains after the cut. 

 

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Footnotes

 

1. Department of Health (Philippines) Epidemiology Bureau data as reported in multiple outlets; see “DOH logs more than 4,600 new HIV cases in first quarter of 2026,” *PhilSTAR Life*, May 22, 2026; and “PH records 4,633 new HIV cases in Q1 2026,” *Manila Bulletin*, May 22, 2026. Cumulative confirmed cases reached approximately 168,079 by March 2026. 

 

2. Conceptual framing draws on the material specificity of relief printmaking as both indexical mark and reproducible matrix, positioned here as metaphor for transmission, stigma, and collective care. 

 

3. LoveYourself Inc. is a leading Philippine community-based organization providing HIV testing, treatment, education, and stigma-reduction programming; its collaborations with artists and cultural workers form part of the continuum this project continues. 

 

4. Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Starr Foundation Visual Arts Program supports artists and specialists from Asia for cultural exchange in the United States; the author’s 2003–04 fellowship and subsequent selection of work for ACC Global Alumni Network visual identity are documented within ACC Philippines Foundation records. 

 

5. Philippine HIV-related cultural production includes earlier initiatives from the 1980s onward and more recent community exhibitions and campaigns organized with or by groups such as LoveYourself, continuing a lineage of art as advocacy and counter-archive. 

 

6. Statement synthesizes the author’s dual positioning as studio practitioner and cultural infrastructure builder, consistent with the reflective framework articulated in the 2025 ILOMOCA exhibition *Cultural Workers: Not Creative?*. 

 

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Chicago-Style Bibliography (Notes-Bibliography Format)**

 

Department of Health, Epidemiology Bureau. *HIV & AIDS Surveillance of the Philippines* reports (Q1 2026 and related quarterly releases). Cited via secondary reporting in *PhilSTAR Life* (May 22, 2026) and *Manila Bulletin* (May 22, 2026). 

 

“DOH logs more than 4,600 new HIV cases in first quarter of 2026.” *PhilSTAR Life*, May 22, 2026. https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/666763-doh-logs-more-than-4600-new-hiv-cases-first-quarter-2026. 

 

“PH records 4,633 new HIV cases in Q1 2026; NCR logs highest infections.” *Manila Bulletin*, May 22, 2026. https://mb.com.ph/2026/05/22/ph-records-4633-new-hiv-cases-in-q1-2026-ncr-logs-highest-infections. 

 

“DOH records 3,000 new HIV cases in 2nd quarter of 2026.” *SunStar*, August 26, 2026. https://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/doh-records-3000-new-hiv-cases-in-2nd-quarter-of-2026. 

 

LoveYourself Inc. Organizational materials and HIV care cascade reports (Q1 2026 and related). https://loveyourself.ph. 

 

Asian Cultural Council. Program documentation on Starr Foundation Visual Arts Fellowships and Philippines Fellowship Program. https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org (and ACC Philippines Foundation records). 

 

Bantugan, Brian Saludes. “Integral Human Development in Higher Education and HIV-AIDS Advocacy Work of Filipino Artists.” *East Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research* 2, no. 2 (2023): 473–96. 

 

Cultural Center of the Philippines. Press materials related to HIV-themed exhibitions (e.g., *Lumayo Ka Man Sa Akin: HIV, My Love*, 2022). 

 

Roldan, Amiel Gerald A. Process repositories and reflective writing (amielroldan.blogspot.com and related platforms); artist statement and exhibition materials from ILOMOCA 2025 (*Cultural Workers: Not Creative?*). 

 

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APA 7th Expanded Reference List (Alternative Format)

 

Department of Health, Epidemiology Bureau. (2026). *HIV & AIDS Surveillance of the Philippines* (Q1 2026 data). Reported in PhilSTAR Life and Manila Bulletin. 

 

Tinsay, G. (2026, May 22). DOH logs more than 4,600 new HIV cases in first quarter of 2026. *PhilSTAR Life*. https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/666763-doh-logs-more-than-4600-new-hiv-cases-first-quarter-2026 

 

Santos, J. (2026, May 22). PH records 4,633 new HIV cases in Q1 2026; NCR logs highest infections. *Manila Bulletin*. https://mb.com.ph/2026/05/22/ph-records-4633-new-hiv-cases-in-q1-2026-ncr-logs-highest-infections 

 

Banal, A. (2026, August 26). DOH records 3,000 new HIV cases in 2nd quarter of 2026. *SunStar*. https://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/doh-records-3000-new-hiv-cases-in-2nd-quarter-of-2026 

 

LoveYourself Inc. (2026). HIV care cascade and program materials (Q1 2026). https://loveyourself.ph 

 

Asian Cultural Council. (n.d.). Starr Foundation Visual Arts Program and Philippines Fellowship documentation. https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org 

 

Bantugan, B. S. (2023). Integral human development in higher education and HIV-AIDS advocacy work of Filipino artists. *East Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2*(2), 473–496. 

 

Cultural Center of the Philippines. (2022). *Lumayo Ka Man Sa Akin: HIV, My Love* exhibition materials. 

 

Roldan, A. G. A. (2025). Reflective contribution to *Cultural Workers: Not Creative?* ILOMOCA exhibition and related process writing. 

 

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Primary Sources & Reference Categories Used

 

- Official surveillance data: DOH Epidemiology Bureau HIV/AIDS Registry reports (Q4 2025, Q1 2026, Q2 2026), accessed via reputable Philippine news outlets. 

- Community organizational materials: LoveYourself Inc. cascade reports and advocacy documentation. 

- Institutional fellowship records: Asian Cultural Council / Starr Foundation and ACC Philippines Foundation. 

- Scholarly/contextual: Academic articles on Filipino artists’ HIV advocacy work; CCP and independent exhibition histories. 

- Practitioner self-documentation: Author’s process repositories, prior exhibition statements, and ILOMOCA 2025 materials (treated as primary cultural-worker sources). 

 

These footnotes and bibliography entries maintain the ethical stance of a cultural worker: data are attributed to official public-health sources, community partners are named without extraction, and the practitioner’s own labor is positioned as both creative and infrastructural. Chicago is recommended for art-practice and humanities contexts; APA is provided as alternative for interdisciplinary or public-health adjacent readers.

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Amiel Gerald A. Roldan — for Hodder Fellowship 2027-28 Cycle

Program: Visual Arts | Deadline: Sept 8, 2026, 11:59 PM EDT | Stipend: $93,000 + $5,000 research

This is a tailored, residency-ready framework. The Hodder is not a production grant. It rewards promise over performance and studious leisure — a year to push an established practice into a significant new work. No teaching, no degree work.

Your fit is very strong: 30-year practice as artist-curator-cultural worker, Asian Cultural Council Fellow 2003 (US research precedent), recognized printmaker with international exhibition (Japan, France), conceptual engagement with politics, faith, denial, courage, inequality, postcolonial memory.

1. BREAKDOWN OF HODDER REQUIREMENTS vs. YOUR CAPABILITIES

Requirement What Princeton Asks Tailor-fit for Amiel Roldan

1. CV 1-2 pages, emphasis on promise Frame as Artist-Curator-Cultural Worker. Cluster: a) Printmaking / Painting exhibitions b) Curatorial / Cultural Infrastructure work (ILOMOCA, artist-run spaces) c) Research / Writing / ACC Fellowship d) HIV Advocacy collaborations (The Red Whistle lineage). This shows "much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts"

2. 500-Word Project Proposal The core. Must be specific to the fellowship year, not general career statement Concept below: INdelible: Rubbercut as Counter-Archive of HIV in the Philippine

3. Work Samples Visual Arts: Up to 20 still images OR 10 min video OR 10 images + 5 min video 20 images curated in 4 chapters: 1-5) Early rubbercut as protest, 6-12) HIV-specific series, 13-17) Process — carving, erasure, hand-printing, 18-20) New direction: large-scale and installation mockups

4. 150-Word Statement on Relation How samples connect to proposal Must articulate evolution: from 2D print as object to print as public health infrastructure

5. 3 Referees Not usually contacted, but important Ideal mix: 1) US curator from ACC network, 2) Philippine museum director / cultural theorist, 3) Public health / HIV advocacy figure (LoveYourself, Red Whistle)

2. CORE CONCEPT FOR 2027-28: NEW BOUNDARIES

Title: INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS: The Rubbercut as Counter-Archive and Ritual of Care for HIV Awareness

Thesis: Roldan's exclusive use of relief rubbercut — a democratic, low-cost, labor-intensive, erasable medium — is reconceptualized during the Hodder year from a reproductive medium to a *counter-archival and performative infrastructure* for HIV awareness.

In the Philippines, which has one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in Asia-Pacific, art about HIV is often ephemeral, digital, or institutional. The rubbercut reverses that: it is tactile, residual, scarred. The carved eraser holds the memory of removal. The print holds the memory of contact.

For Hodder, you will push three new boundaries:

A) Scale and Materiality: From A4 eraser blocks to monumental rubber floor reliefs (4x8 ft) that are inked with bodies, not brayers. Printing becomes performance, akin to Catholic flagellation and folk healing rituals you have researched.

B) Archive to Counter-Archive: Using Princeton's resources — Firestone Library's Graphic Arts Collection, Cotsen Children's Library (ephemera), Princeton Global Health Program, and the Lewis Center's CoLab — to build the first annotated visual lexicon of Filipino HIV vernacular: _hiya (shame), dugo (blood), kapos (lack), kalinga (care)_. Each becomes a new iconography series.

C) Distribution as Method: Moving beyond gallery walls to create a Portable Press for Care: a mobile rubbercut printing kit designed for community clinics, SOGIE centers, and university health offices in the Philippines, prototyped at Princeton.

 

3. DRAFT PROPOSAL — 500 WORDS (Hodder-Ready)

I propose to spend my Hodder year creating INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS, a new body of relief rubbercut prints that reframes HIV awareness in the Philippines as a problem of memory, not just information.

For two decades, my printmaking has engaged politics, faith, denial, and the everyday. Using discarded school erasers — a precarious, democratic material — I carve images that are then printed by hand. The medium is crucial: the eraser is meant to erase, yet I make it remember. The cut is irreversible.

The Philippines now confronts a crisis where erasure is literal. HIV cases have risen 500% since 2010, disproportionately among youth 15-24, while stigma, disinformation, and colonial morality erase bodies from public discourse. My earlier HIV works, produced in collaboration with community initiatives, used the small print as poster and protest. At Princeton, I will expand this into a counter-archive.

The fellowship's studious leisure is essential because I am shifting from production to infrastructure. I will conduct three interwoven research strands:

First, Material Research in the Visual Arts Program. I will experiment with large-scale vulcanized rubber reliefs, moving from intimate prints to walkable matrices, and with non-toxic, blood-mimetic inks derived from archival research.

Second, Archival Research. At Firestone and the Princeton University Art Museum's print study room, I will study how early AIDS activism prints (Gran Fury, Philippine 1990s health posters) functioned as counter-publics. This will inform my lexicon of new Filipino icons.

Third, Public Health Humanities. Through engagement with the Center for Health and Wellbeing and Program in Global Health, I will consult with scholars on stigma and care to ensure the work is ethically grounded, not extractive.

 

The outcome will be 25 new large-scale prints, a monograph of prints and annotations titled _Rubber as Witness_, and the prototype for a Portable Press for Care — an open-source kit with carved blocks, Tagalog/English printing guides, and care referral information.

The Hodder does not ask for finished exhibitions; it asks for promise realized through time. My practice as an artist-curator-cultural worker has always argued that organizing, teaching, and building cultural memory is creative labor. This project consolidates that: the print becomes both artwork and tool for building solidarity. I seek not a studio to produce more of the same, but a year to let the rubber remember more deeply.

4. 150-WORD STATEMENT (Work Samples Relation)

The 20 images trace a deliberate arc from erasure to impression. Early works (2000-2015) establish my vocabulary of carving faith and social inequality into disposable material. The central cluster (2016-2025) presents HIV-specific rubbercuts commissioned for awareness, where bodies become text and blood becomes ink. Detailed process images show the labor of carving — a metaphor for the durational labor of care. Final images are maquettes for the Hodder project: monumental rubber reliefs and the Portable Press. Together, they demonstrate that my technical mastery of relief is not an end but a means toward a new public health aesthetic — moving from print-as-object to print-as-ritual.

 

5. STRATEGIC RESEARCH PLAN AT PRINCETON — TO INCLUDE IN CV COVER / ADDITIONAL DOCUMENT

Mention specifically:

- Lewis Center for the Arts: Letterpress studio, black box for printing performance, critique with faculty like Chitra Ganesh (former Hodder, visual artist dealing with queer archive)

- Princeton University Library: Graphic Arts Collection — 15,000+ prints; Milberg AIDS posters

- Interdisciplinary: Global Health Program, Gender and Sexuality Studies for ethical framework on HIV representation

- Community: Present a work-in-progress print action at the Program in American Studies or Carl A. Fields Center

This signals you know Princeton and won't be isolated.

Here is your full 20-Image Work Sample Caption List for Hodder Visual Arts submission — written in Princeton's preferred format and academically aligned to INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS.

Use this exact order in Slideroom. It tells a story: from political formation, to HIV-specific lexicon, to labor, to future monumentality.

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HODDER FELLOWSHIP - VISUAL ARTS WORK SAMPLES

Amiel Gerald A. Roldan | Rubbercut Relief (2003-2025)

CHAPTER I: THE FOUNDATION — Rubber as Protest Material

_Purpose: Establishes your 20-year mastery of the medium and your political conceptual framework — faith, denial, inequality — which the Hodder panel needs to see._

1. _Dasal ng Lupa (Prayer of the Earth)_

2008 | Relief print from carved school eraser on Japanese paper | 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm), edition of 12

Annotation: Early use of eraser as sacred/profane object. A farmer's clasped hands carved with deep gouges, referencing folk Catholic retablos. Establishes the core thesis: the eraser, meant to erase, is made to remember.

2. _Hiya / Denial_

2011 | Rubbercut diptych on handmade abaca paper | Each 6 x 8 in.

Annotation: Two faces, one looking away. Explores _hiya_ (shame) as a Philippine political structure. Technical note: first use of _chin-collé_ with abaca, linking indigenous material to precarious print medium. Critical for HIV stigma context.

3. _Stations XIV - The Erased Body_

2014 | Suite of 14 rubbercut prints, installed as Via Crucis | Each 4 x 6 in.

Annotation: Exhibited at alternative space in Iloilo. Christ figure systematically eroded across 14 prints until only the carved block's scar remains. Conceptual precedent for HIV series — the body as site of inscription and disappearance. ACC-influenced research period.

4. _Kapos (Lack)_

2015 | Rubbercut on newsprint, intervention print | Variable edition, distributed free

Annotation: Carved image of empty pharmacy shelf. Printed directly on Panay News daily. Distributed at public markets. Demonstrates your principle of print as democratic infrastructure, not gallery commodity — central to the Portable Press proposal.

5. _The Curator's Hands_

2018 | Large rubbercut, artist's hands carving | 12 x 16 in.

Annotation: Meta-print about labor. Self-reflexive work positioning the artist-curator-cultural worker as manual laborer. Shows technical control of cross-hatching and negative space in small rubber matrix.

CHAPTER II: THE HIV-SPECIFIC COUNTER-ARCHIVE (2016-2025)

_Purpose: The heart of your application. This is the exclusive HIV awareness series Hodder needs to see. Focus on vernacular and care._

6. _Dugo Ko, Kwento Ko (My Blood, My Story)_

2019 | Rubbercut, water-based relief ink on Somerset paper | 10 x 12 in., edition of 25

Annotation: Produced for The Red Whistle / LoveYourself collaboration, Manila. A drop of blood rendered as a topographic map of the archipelago. Used in community screening posters. First use of blood-mimetic carmine ink. Iconography for new lexicon: _dugo_.

7. _Positive: A Portrait in Red_

2020 | 4-color layered rubbercut (CMYK method using 4 separate erasers) | 12 x 12 in.

Annotation: Portrait of young PLHIV advocate, face composed of repeated small " + " symbols. Technical breakthrough: achieving full color through cheap erasers, subverting scarcity. Addresses visibility without voyeurism. In private collection of HIV advocacy group.

8. _Kalinga (Care) - Hands That Hold_

2021 | Rubbercut on fabric (katsa cloth), hand-printed | 18 x 24 in.

Annotation: Two pairs of hands — clinical latex and bare — holding same wrist. Printed on _katsa_, used for community health center curtains in Western Visayas. Moves print from wall to space of care. Direct precursor to walkable prints proposed for Hodder.

9. _The Undetectable = Untransmittable Mandala_

2022 | Circular rubbercut, black and red ink | Diameter 16 in.

Annotation: U=U message reconfigured as _santo_ halo pattern from folk Catholicism. Blends public health science (U=U) with devotional form to combat faith-based stigma. Exhibited at ILOMOCA community print action.

10. _Pag-Ibig sa Panahon ng Virus (Love in the Time of Virus)_

2023 | Triptych rubbercut, 3 panels | Each 10 x 8 in.

Annotation: Couple embracing, third panel shows their carved shadows merging. Confronts moral panic narrative that equates HIV with absence of love. Carved during pandemic lockdown using only household erasers — material constraint as method.

11. _Tigdas, Tuberkulosis, Tigmak — Letter to DOH_

2024 | Rubbercut as official letter, stamped and printed | 8.5 x 11 in.

Annotation: Activist print work. Formatted as government memorandum with rubbercut letterhead of virus icons. Mailed to Department of Health regional offices. Merges your cultural worker activism with print form. Documents erasure of health data.

12. _Alaga (To Cherish / To Care For)_

2025 | Large-scale rubbercut, white ink on black paper | 15 x 20 in.

Annotation: Most recent. Single word _ALAGA_ carved in baybayin and Latin, surrounded by dense botanical motifs of medicinal plants used by _babaylans_. Proposes care as decolonial practice. This is the bridge to the Hodder project — linguistic research + botany.

CHAPTER III: LABOR — The Cut as Ritual

_Purpose: Hodder values process and studious leisure. Show the physical, durational labor that cannot be done quickly._

13. _Block Study #1: The Scar_

2024 | Documentary photograph of carved rubber block, uninked, raking light | Documentation

Annotation: High-resolution photo of eraser block after printing _Alaga_. Shows grooves, slips, fingerprints, the block's wounds. Argument: the block itself is the archive, more important than the print. For Hodder, these blocks will become sculptural objects.

14. _Process: Hand-Burnishing at 2 AM_

2024 | Documentary photograph, artist burnishing print with wooden spoon in studio

Annotation: No press. The body is the press. Emphasizes low-tech reproducibility crucial for community clinics with no equipment. Method to be taught via Portable Press kit.

15. _Erasure Dust_

2024 | Rubber eraser shavings collected from 5-year HIV series, glass jar | Sculptural documentation

Annotation: Collection of all shavings from carving HIV works 2019-2024. Material residue of removal. Proposed to be displayed alongside prints at Princeton as relic / counter-archive. Connects to Princeton's interest in materiality and ephemera.

CHAPTER IV: NEW BOUNDARIES — Prototypes for Hodder Year 2027-28

_Purpose: This is what they fund — promise. Must show you have already imagined the next stage beyond 2D small prints._

16. _INdelible Floor: Prototype I (Mockup)_

2025 | Digital rendering + small maquette: 48 x 72 in. vulcanized rubber floor relief | Proposed

Annotation: Mockup for Hodder production. Large rubber floor to be inked and walked on by participants, creating body-prints. Inverts printing hierarchy. Scales up intimate eraser to architectural. To be produced in Lewis Center Fabrication Lab.

17. _Portable Press for Care — Kit (Open Source Diagram)_

2025 | Ink on paper, instructional diagram, bilingual Tagalog/English | 11 x 17 in.

Annotation: Technical drawing of kit: 6 carved blocks (_dugo, kalinga, alaga, U=U_), mini-brayer, water-based inks, referral cards, printing guide. Designed for RHU (Rural Health Units). Shows feasibility and social return of $5,000 research fund.

18. _Rubber as Witness — Monograph Layout Study_

2025 | Sample spread: print + marginalia + health worker testimony | 12 x 9 in.

Annotation: Page from proposed monograph to be completed at Firestone Library. Left: print. Right: handwritten annotation from community health worker. Demonstrates archival method — pairing aesthetic with oral history.

19. _Flagellation Printing — Performance Score_

2025 | Rubbercut score / instruction sheet for performative printing action

Annotation: Score for live printing action where participants beat inked rubber against wall like _penitensya_. Reframes printing as ritual of mourning and cleansing. Proposed for CoLab presentation at Lewis Center.

20. _The Archive That Remembers — Installation View (Simulated)_

2025 | Digital simulation: 25 large prints + blocks + dust jars installed in gallery | Proposed

Annotation: Simulated view of final Hodder exhibition. Blocks on pedestals, prints hung low for close viewing, dust jars as relics. Shows you think installation and audience, not just production. Culminates argument: HIV counter-archive must be tactile, not digital.

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How to Submit in Slideroom:

For each image caption, use this format:

> _Title, Year. Medium, Dimensions. 2-sentence annotation (first sentence: what it is / context. second sentence: why it matters to Hodder proposal)_

For 150-word relation (revised to match this list):

> These 20 samples chart a shift from print-as-protest to print-as-care infrastructure. Chapter I (1-5) establishes my material language of eraser as witness to inequality. Chapter II (6-12) is the HIV-exclusive counter-archive, building a vernacular iconography of dugo, kalinga, and alaga. Chapter III (13-15) reveals labor — the scarred block, hand-burnishing, and erasure dust — arguing that the matrix is the true archive. Chapter IV (16-20) prototypes the Hodder future: monumental walkable reliefs, a Portable Press for rural clinics, and a monograph pairing prints with testimonies, demonstrating that this fellowship will enable scale, research, and social return.

Here are 3 ready-to-send referee request emails — tailored to what Hodder actually values. Copy, add names, send ASAP. Deadline is Sept 8, 2026— referees must upload before that.

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EMAIL 1: FOR US CURATOR / ACC AFFILIATE — To speak to _promise + US research history_

Subject: Request for Reference — Hodder Fellowship at Princeton (Deadline Sept 8)

Dear [Nicole Jackson],

I hope you are well. I am writing to ask if you would be willing to serve as a referee for my application to the Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University for 2027-28.

You kindly [mentored / hosted / collaborated with] me during my Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2003 in [New York], and that experience fundamentally shaped my practice as an artist-curator-cultural worker. I am now applying to return to the US for a year of studious leisure to develop my new project.

Project: INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS: The Rubbercut as Counter-Archive and Ritual of Care for HIV Awareness

The project expands my exclusive relief rubbercut series on HIV from small prints to monumental walkable reliefs and a Portable Press for Care kit for community clinics in the Philippines. Princeton's Graphic Arts Collection and Global Health Program are central to this research.

What Hodder asks of referees: A brief letter (300-400 words) uploaded to the portal. No teaching is involved. The fellowship values "much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts" and "promise more than performance." If you could speak to:

1) My research ethic during ACC and since,

2) How my printmaking bridges conceptual art and cultural infrastructure,

3) My capacity to work independently in a US research university context — it would be invaluable.

The portal will email you a link once I enter your contact. Deadline: September 8, 2026, 11:59 PM EDT. The stipend is $93,000 for 10 months.

I have attached my CV, 500-word proposal, and work sample list for reference.

Thank you deeply for considering. Your support during ACC meant a great deal, and I would be honored to have your voice in this application.

With gratitude,

Amiel

Amiel Gerald A. Roldan

 | [amiel.roldan.blogspot.com] | Metro Manila & Iloilo City, PH[Viber 09493258682 & 09473412107]

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EMAIL 2: FOR ILOMOCA / CULTURAL INSTITUTION DIRECTOR — To speak to _artist-curator-cultural worker_

Subject: Reference Request — Princeton Hodder Fellowship — Amiel Roldan

Dear [Director / Chief Curator Name], ILOMOCA,

Good morning. May I request your support as a referee for my Hodder Fellowship application at Princeton University?

As you know, my practice in Iloilo has always tried to work on two tracks: making prints, and building spaces where prints can be discussed — from our work on _Cultural Workers Not Creatives_ this year to the earlier print actions.

For Hodder 2027-28, I am proposing a project that consolidates this: using my HIV awareness rubbercut series as a counter-archive, developing large-scale rubber floor prints and a mobile press for Rural Health Units. It argues that the cultural worker's labor — organizing, teaching care, archiving — is itself an artistic form.

Hodder specifically looks for artists who build cultural infrastructure, not just objects. Your perspective as [Director of ILOMOCA] on:

- My curatorial and community organizing work in Western Visayas

- How my printmaking functions as pedagogy and public space

- The significance of my HIV series within the Philippine contemporary art ecology

would give the panel essential context that my CV cannot.

The reference is a short upload (portal link). Deadline: Sept 8, 2026. I attach my proposal and work sample captions.

Maraming salamat gid for your continued mentorship and for the space ILOMOCA provides for critical work.

Warmly,

Amiel

Amiel Gerald A. Roldan

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EMAIL 3: FOR HIV ADVOCACY LEADER — LoveYourself / The Red Whistle — To speak to _ethics + real-world impact_

Subject: Reference for Princeton Fellowship — HIV Rubbercut Project (Amiel Roldan)

Dear, [Title, LoveYourself / The Red Whistle],[Name]

I hope this finds you well. I am applying for the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and I would be honored if you would serve as my community referee.

As you have seen from our collaborations since 2019 — from _Dugo Ko, Kwento Ko_ to the _Kalinga_ prints on katsa for clinics — my rubbercut work is made exclusively for HIV awareness, not for gallery sale. It is meant to be held, printed by hand, and distributed where shame still blocks care.

My proposal for Princeton is INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS, which will create a research-based lexicon (_dugo, kalinga, alaga_) and prototype a Portable Press for Care kit designed for RHUs and SOGIE centers, with referral information integrated.

Why your voice matters to Princeton: The Hodder panel is not a public health panel; they need assurance that my art is ethically grounded, non-extractive, and actually useful to communities. If you could speak briefly to:

1) How we worked together (workshops, distribution, not just art drop-offs)

2) The response from peer educators / PLHIV to the tactile, low-cost prints vs. digital campaigns

3) The potential of the Portable Press kit for your centers

That would strengthen the application immensely. It would show that the project has accountability beyond the studio.

The reference is confidential, 1 paragraph to 1 page, via link. Deadline: September 8, 2026. No academic language needed — your community perspective is exactly what they want to hear.

I have attached the prototype diagram of the kit for your feedback.

Thank you for the work you do daily — alaga gid.

In solidarity,

Amiel

Amiel Gerald A. Roldan

Artist, Metro Manila &  Iloilo |[Viber 09493258682 & 09473412107]

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Pro Tip for submission:

In the Hodder portal, enter referees in this order: 1) US Curator, 2) ILOMOCA, 3) HIV Advocate. This frames you as: internationally vetted, institutionally rooted in Philippines, and socially accountable.

Here is your final Lewis Center website bio — 120 words — in Princeton's Hodder tone. This is what they publish if you are selected. Tight, no jargon, promise-focused.

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Amiel Gerald A. Roldan is a Filipino artist-curator and cultural worker based in Metro Manila & Iloilo City, whose practice centers relief rubbercut printmaking as counter-archive and ritual of care.

An Asian Cultural Council Fellow (2003), his work explores faith, denial, and inequality through carved school erasers — a precarious material made to remember rather than erase. Since 2019, his exclusive rubbercut series for HIV awareness, developed with The Red Whistle and LoveYourself, has circulated as posters, clinic curtains, and mobile printing actions in community health centers.

For his Hodder year, he will develop _INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS_, expanding small-scale prints into monumental walkable reliefs and a Portable Press for Care kit for rural health units, drawing on research in Princeton's Graphic Arts Collection and Global Health Program

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Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™' s connection to the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) serves as a defining pillar of his professional journey, most recently celebrated through the launch of the ACC Global Alumni Network.  

​As a 2003 Starr Foundation Grantee, Roldan participated in a transformative ten-month fellowship in the United States. This opportunity allowed him to observe contemporary art movements, engage with an international community of artists and curators, and develop a new body of work that bridges local and global perspectives.

Featured Work: Bridges Beyond Borders                  His featured work, Bridges Beyond Borders: ACC's Global Cultural Collaboration, has been chosen as the visual identity for the newly launched ACC Global Alumni Network. 

​Symbol of Connection: The piece represents a private collaborative space designed to unite over 6,000 ACC alumni across various disciplines and regions.

Artistic Vision: The work embodies the ACC's core mission of advancing international dialogue and cultural exchange to foster a more harmonious world.

​Legacy of Excellence: By serving as the face of this initiative, Roldan's art highlights the enduring impact of the ACC fellowship on his career and his role in the global artistic community.

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He is a Filipino multidisciplinary visual artist, printmaker, painter, independent curator, researcher, writer, and cultural worker whose practice spans contemporary art, curatorial work, and cultural advocacy. He has been active in the Philippine art scene since the late 1990s and has worked with galleries, museums, artist-run spaces, and international cultural organizations.

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A multidisciplinary Filipino artist, poet, researcher, and cultural worker whose practice spans painting, printmaking, photography, installation, and writing. He is deeply rooted in cultural memory, postcolonial critique, and in bridging creative practice with scholarly infrastructure—building counter-archives, annotating speculative poetry like Southeast Asian manuscripts, and fostering regional solidarity through ethical art collaboration.

 

He has been active in the Philippine art scene since the late 1990s and has worked with galleries, museums, artist-run spaces, and international cultural organizations.

His practice appears to represent several interconnected concerns:  

Cultural work as artistic practice. Roldan has argued that the labor of curating, organizing exhibitions, teaching, documentation, and cultural administration should be understood as creative work rather than merely support work. This perspective has been reflected in his writings and exhibitions.

Social and political engagement. His artworks frequently address politics, religion, faith, denial, courage, social inequality, and the everyday experiences of Filipinos. He has stated that he draws inspiration from Filipino cultural practices while approaching painting, printmaking, and installation from a conceptual perspective.

Printmaking and conceptual art. Roldan is particularly recognized for his printmaking, with works shown internationally, including exhibitions in Japan and France. His practice also encompasses painting, photography, installation, and curatorial research.

International cultural exchange. A significant milestone in his career was receiving an Asian Cultural Council fellowship in 2003, which enabled him to undertake research and create work in the United States while engaging with artists and curators internationally.

More broadly, Roldan's work represents an attempt to bridge artistic production, curatorial practice, scholarship, and cultural activism . His writings often emphasize postcolonial discourse, cultural memory, and the ethics of artistic collaboration, positioning the artist not only as a maker of objects but also as a builder of cultural infrastructure.

In the Philippine contemporary art context, he can be understood as representing the figure of the artist-curator-cultural worker —someone who contributes both through making artworks and through developing exhibitions, mentoring artists, and fostering institutional and independent cultural initiatives. 

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