Dream Death Mask, Yellow Woman (2025) addresses dreams, death, mourning, the face as a lens and intergenerational portal. The yellow mask depicted in the portrait is a glass mask I created with glass technicians. I create the sculpture mold, the technicians blew a large and labor-intensive glass bubble into the mold, and after the glass cooled, I cut and sanded the glass. Yellow is significant to this work in many ways– as a color of hope and democracy in the Philippines in support for the Aquino family and the non-violent “People’s Power Movement” in 1986 which was also known as the Yellow Revolution which overthrew 20 years of dictatorship by Ferdinand Marcos. The color of yellow in this case was inspired by the song, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree” by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando – a song of longing for one’s love to return home – yellow ribbons symbolized support for Cory Aquino, and her husband senator Benigno Ninoy Aquino who was assassinated upon returning home to the Philippines in 1983. The photograph also references yellow as a color of royalty and prosperity in China including yellow porcelain glaze used during the Ming Dynasty; and the term “yellow peril” an example of derogatory language historical racism beginning in the mid to late 1800’s against Asian and Southeast Asian immigrants to California, the United States, and the Western world. Part of the title, Yellow Woman acknowledges the profound writing of contemporary scholar Anne Anlin Cheng. In her words the construction of Asian femininity and the concept of yellow woman is produced through historical and contemporary notions of decor, ornament, surface, and technology. This photograph also references precolonial funerary uses of death masks in the Philippines. My photograph Dream Death Mask, Yellow Woman is a collecting place of dreams, death, mourning, envisioning, and connections between physical and spiritual realms.