My 'Kain' dinner napkins

I participated in a collaborative public art project curated by Lisa Link and Io Palmer. It was a call for dinner napkins ... Dinner napkins conveying unique connections to food and culture.

My contribution is a set of four dinner napkins. Using native woven cotton cloth from Abra, each napkin bears a photo of a famous Philippine street food and the word "Kain!".

"Kain" means food in Filipino, my native language. We often say "kain!" to invite a visitor, or anybody really, to join us in eating.

Well, the napkins, the 1st I have ever made, have been shipped, and hopefully already in Io's PO box. Can't wait to see the entire exhibition. It will be sometime in April at the Hampden Gallery in Boston

the work in progress: woven cotton cloth from Abra, Philippines

photos of famous Philippine street food, to be printed on the napkins...

ice scramble, sago't gulaman, halo-halo, and taho

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An updates on this collaboration at: http://wearmesa.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-kain-napkins-are-traveling.html