pausok
Craig Mammano
24th June - 15th July 2023
Opening reception 1-3pm 24th June
This work explores mental health, protecting your energy and learning how to deal with adverse energies in a more productive way. Pausok is a traditional method used by Filipinos to cleanse their surroundings. We grow medicine at our home to burn. Clearing the energy around us and around our neighborhood helps us cope with ourselves and our own childhood traumas. Both of us had lost a parent at a young age and over the years we have committed to understanding the repercussions of such a loss and the effect it has had in our adulthood and relationship.
— Craig Mammano
Image credit: Craig Mammano
craig mammano
Craig Mammano (b. New Jersey) studied at Hunter College, The City University of New York. Spending the next few years working in the archives of the Black Star publishing company and assisting world-renowned documentary photographer, Joseph Rodriguez. His work has been exhibited at The Association of Photographers Gallery, London; FOTO FEST Biennial, Houston, TX; Home Space Gallery, New Orleans, LA; GET THIS Gallery, Atlanta, GA; and Permanent Gallery, Brighton, England, among others. Since 2001 he has been making photography zines and artist books, both self-published and working with many celebrated independent publishers including The Photocopy Club, Brighton/London; Swill Children, Brooklyn, NY; King Hamburger Eyes; and Kaugummi Books. He currently lives in South Beacon Hill, Seattle.
Instagram: @craig_mammano
