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My first solo NYC event for my book left me in tears 🫶🏽 Thank you @_66greene & @snatraraps for giving me the space to share a part of my soul with my community and loved ones.

@parallel2you allows me to explore poetry and prose within the collective mediums of fabric, clothing, movement and the human body, as a canvas and ever evolving series, illustrating the progression of my growth where I find love in Christ and move away from self-deprecation and into creating through unconditional love as a means of direct connection to God.

Thank you everyone for popping out to celebrate this important milestone with me— I’m so excited to share so much more 🤍

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Last night with @converse 👟💙

📸 @migi.pics

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After 10 years in the making, my first self-published poetry book, Parallel To You—‘Words and Images’ is out now :)

I’ve wanted to be a writer and poet since I was a child, but grew to know it had to be in a non-conventional way. In 2016, I started an online blog where I would upload photos from my photoshoots along with my writing, poetry and prose, and stopped in 2019 to focus on creating a physical book, aiming to combine personal style and poetry within something that’s tangible and physical.

Consisting of poetry written across a span of 15 years— years of trial, error and experimentation, my book is comprised of several versions of myself— along with photos of hand-made wearable poetry pieces: clothing I designed and hand-made, sewn myself, wrote, carved and painted poems on, as well as shot with on self timer in my childhood home. Each piece mirrors the emotional landscape of the poem it carries, each page exploring identity, spirituality, transformation, love and human error through the lens of a Puerto Rican and Filipino woman.
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Being a model, I had built a foundation for myself and my career that’s focused primarily on exteriority, ego, and the illusion of perfection. At times, it felt as if I was wearing someone else’s body, and everything had become surface level. I accept that this perfectly visualizes the truth of the self and that truth is that I, as well as many others, live life as an oxymoron.

Unless you truly take the time to get to know someone within in-person experiences and consistent communication, you’ll never truly know them. Although this is true, even the most authentic, transparent person who wishes to translate themselves through different mediums of intimacy, whether it be digital or real life, is still an illusion of the character that person has chosen for themself. The virtual self and the brief passerby self, is not, and will never be the true self, and even that can be disassembled. The idea will remain, but its execution through perception is what ultimately changes.

Thank you for being here through my journey— Link in bio to purchase from my soft launch (limited copies available) :)

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Artist, director, and musician @zastarring joins us for the debut of Field Notes, a new series spotlighting the people and processes behind creative work.

Ahead of his sophomore album Happy Weight, Zahir reflects on tending to his inner artist, finding inspiration beyond music, embracing surprise, and the artists shaping his creative universe.

Read the full feature at the link in bio.

Interview by Roxy Alis (@roxyalis)
Photography by Shaughn Cooper (@shaughncooper)

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stopped in new yawkkk otw to happyweight, usa!🇺🇸

hi, @colorsxstudios can i get next?

HOV! BEY! ROC! 🧊

AYE MUSTARDDD! 🌭

she’s HER! @hermusicofficial

a journalist historian interviewer and a musician filmmaker director walk into the unction…

hashtag best teammate ever! #directorduo

TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL!

circa 7/12 @ happyweight album trailer

YASIIN BEY? INCREDIBLE! NO WORDS!

who pulls up to the function in a sprinter van? all class 🏟️

full circle moment for me, you go! @kelela 🩶

chances are if you see me, you see him 🧍🏾‍♂️

Polaroid spread

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a compilation of smiles through a night @goodcozy

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Summer so far..

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Just another day in the neighborhood. Some shots i took. Film camera Canon T70.

#photography #nyc #art #fashion

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Okay Purple Cozy

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may 29, 2026 — I won a new Polaroid Go camera at @pola.con and took it out that night and took photos of everyone. love this cute little camera!
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#instantfilm #polaroid #polaroidgo

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june 21, 2025 — moments from my rooftop polaroid party. I had been wanting to throw a polaroid party for years and i’m still so happy I finally made it happen with the help of my lovely friends. this day is already such a sweet memory and such a beautiful entry celebration to my living in nyc. so so so sweet.
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#polaroid #instantfilm #slr680

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