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Dream, Desire, Despair

Mothers / Gardens

Miguel Caba

November 15, 2025 - January 10, 2026

Essay by Hannah Guiang

Saturday, November 15, 2025–Saturday, January 10, 2026

Opening reception: Friday, November 14, 2025 from 7pm–10pm

 

Over the past year I have been recreating images that my mother and grandmother sent to me on iMessage and Facebook Messenger from their homes in Canada and the Philippines respectively. These images get mechanically reproduced, preserving their digital artifacts like my grandmother’s shaky hands and low camera quality, the images sharpening of my mother’s iPhone and file compression required for these images to travel such far distances. The paintings mimic reality in imagery, and in shape they ripple like tilled soil, protrude like window bars, and are round like pots; they are almost but not quite the real thing.