IT’S NOT JUST A BOX (2026)
IT'S NOT JUST A BOX is a visual work combining collagraph printmaking, digital editing, and moving image to explore migration, memory, and diasporic identity through the symbolism of the balikbayan box. Using cardboard, repetition, and texture, the work reflects themes of care, displacement, and belonging. Layered cardboard plates create imperfect prints that echo individual migration journeys, which are then scanned and digitally reassembled into shifting compositions. Through movement and repetition, the work presents migration as an ongoing process shaped by personal and collective experience.
Created and designed by Chelsea Laylo