Merienda

2019

pencil, watercolor, and digital paint on archival paper

24 x 36"

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Daisy Ochoa and her childhood best friend, Gloria Mapua Lim. They are both daughters of pensionados from the original class of 1903, Ramon Ochoa and Tomas Mapua. Ramon and Tomas were both assigned to work at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.

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Intertextual

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Orosa, Mario E., The Pensionado Story