Bio
Anna Liza De Leon Evangelista is a Filipino-American artist from Van Nuys living in Los Angeles. She is now a graduate student at Loyola Marymount University in the Marriage and Family Therapy / Art Therapy Graduate Program.
In her work, Anna Liza explores how the acronym CPT, which stands for 'Colored People Time,' is interchangeable with the phrase 'Colonized People Time.' More specifically, she aims to reclaim the colloquial term 'Filipino Time.' She believes the solar calendar precedes the Gregorian calendar and uses the sun to measure time reflected on her brown body.
Through processes like tracing shadows and sun-bleaching brown construction paper, Anna Liza is not only manipulating tangible material. She is also actively considering the duration in which paper fades, the size and direction a shadow tells one about time, and how her skin gets darker when working in the sun.