Gabriel Arios Hudson is an MFA Candidate at UNM, a product of the Philippines, assembled in Austin, Texas, packaged in Buena Vista, Colorado, formerly distributed through Illinois and Upper Michigan, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"To return to community = balikbayan" is a non-traditional book about growing up mix-cultured in the 21^st century United States. Gabriel needed more than words and images to accomplish this, so they dispersed their written words amongst sculptures including video, audio, and mixed media.

Gabriel took the literal cardboard boxes that enable our society to function, and the psychic, mental, metaphysical, socio-emotional, societally-constructed boxes that also shape individual people and communities, and made art from harvesting, ripping, shredding, soaking, pulping, blending, then re-sculpting these boxes.  

Gabriel found a sense of futuristic self-determination, present fulfillment, and a capacity to contribute to old-old efforts of social engagement by playing in the box, outside of the box, but most of all: with the box.

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