Being raised in the mountains means always seeing the world at an altitude. The expansive becomes intuitive, and the interconnected is reliable. This is examined in John Frank Sabado’s portraits of people who have shaped his sense of communality from childhood. In Leonard Aguinaldo’s works, the figures see themselves as seeing the world change and how they wish to be seen in it.

Comets freighted with a different type of meaning are lighting up Chelsea this winter at Silverlens, New York.

Endaya describes this work as a kind of self-portrait, even if none of the figures resemble her. She has perhaps always seen herself in each of these women, which speaks to the empathy that radiates in her work. In Kahapon Muli Bukas, she asks us to do the same: every worn object, unsettling gaze, and victorious posture moves us to close the distance between ourselves and the neglected Filipino women of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.