Zenith Issue 2

parents were always busy, and so she had so much alone time.
She spent it reading and watching anime and making paintings.
“Taste as a construct” is interesting to her because it’s so familiar
but also its meaning and images change drastically throughout
time.

Her current research into the contemporary pop-culture
icons of Gen-Z examines the layers of taste structuring a gen-
erational homogeneous aesthetic. Through this work, she has
engaged with a multiplicity of symbols, exploring these forms
as constructed forces within cultural production.

Bhen Alan
Bhen Alan is a diasporic Filipino artist who lived in Toronto,
Canada before settling in Massachusetts, U.S.A. for seven years
then moved to Florida for a year. He now resides in Providence,
Rhode Island to acquire his Masters in Fine Arts - Painting at
Rhode Island School of Design.

He started a sustainable clothing brand that talks about the
allusion of homage, heritage, and homeland. The brand uses
100% recycled waste to produce its shirts. Part of the profit is
also donated to an organization in the Philippines that gives
free education to children. Bhen is also a dancer, a florist, and a
fashion enthusiast. His work has been exhibited to galleries in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, and internationally, but
his breakthrough is when he participated in the Gender Bending
Fashion at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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