Mik and May Gaspay are a Filipino-American son/mother artist team whose collaborative practice merges traditional craft and contemporary art to explore memory, migration, and belonging. Together, they create sculptural quilts that transform fabric into a vessel for storytelling—honoring family histories while reflecting on broader experiences of home and displacement.
For their installation at the Art Kiosk, the Gaspays present Ancestral Home, a meditation on home, loss, and inheritance. The project takes its name from their family’s former home in Enrile, Philippines—now lost to a typhoon—and transforms that absence into a space for reflection and reconstruction...
Mik and May Gaspay are a Filipino-American son/mother artist team whose collaborative practice merges traditional craft and contemporary art to explore memory, migration, and belonging. Together, they create sculptural quilts that transform fabric into a vessel for storytelling—honoring family histories while reflecting on broader experiences of home and displacement.
For their installation at the Art Kiosk, the Gaspays present Ancestral Home, a meditation on home, loss, and inheritance. The project takes its name from their family’s former home in Enrile, Philippines—now lost to a typhoon—and transforms that absence into a space for reflection and reconstruction. Through the slow, tactile process of cutting, stitching, and layering, Mik and May reimagine the house as both a personal and collective monument, a place rebuilt through memory and collaboration.
Presented within the public setting of the Art Kiosk in Redwood City, Ancestral Home invites viewers to consider how the stories of migration, resilience, and care that shape one family echo across many others.
