Fine Art Semi-Glossy Print

Dimensions: 12 x 16"

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About the Artist:

Gabe Mision, aka tabuugabbu, creates work rooted in the lived experience of the Filipino diaspora and the ongoing legacies of colonialism that shape Filipino identity in the United States. His practice foregrounds the tensions between pre-colonial cultural memory and contemporary American political realities, using visual language as a tool for reclamation and resistance. Mision’s graffiti-based pieces center Baybayin, the pre-colonial Filipino script nearly erased by centuries of Spanish and U.S. imperialism. By rendering Baybayin through the aesthetics of street art, he transforms traditional forms into contemporary acts of decolonization. The stylized script becomes a bridge between ancestral knowledge and present-day urban expression—an insistence that Filipino identity is not relic, but living lineage. Through these works, he challenges
the historical erasure of Indigenous Filipino culture and reasserts the visibility of a people whose stories were systematically overwritten.
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Alongside these explorations of cultural resurgence, Mision’s most recent pieces engage directly with American political rhetoric, particularly the violence embedded within pro-gun discourse and its amplification by public figures such as Charlie Kirk. By juxtaposing diasporic identity with the hyper-nationalist narratives dominating U.S. political culture, his work exposes the contradictions faced by Filipino communities who are both absorbed into and marginalized by the American project. His pieces interrogate how the U.S. constructs and consumes immigrant identities while upholding systems that endanger them.

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