Snake as River as Snake (2021) is a video reflection on my initial travels to the Philippines in 2018 and 2019. Including audio from conversations with my family about the return of my grandmother’s ashes to Pangasinan, this work is an ode to cycles, transformation, and our own ephemerality. I contemplate the natural world in this distant place and what it might mean for us to return – in our bodies, or in spirit – to somewhere both deeply known and unknown. Featured in the October 2021 exhibition, Of Everywhere, at the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at the University of California – Davis.