1 week Ago By Jannelle So Productions
This story is published in partnership with SoJannelleTV, a magazine show about Filipinos in North America Paul Pfeiffer never wanted to be seen as just a Filipino artist, but his immigration story has informed his art in many ways. The 58-year-old multi-disciplinary artist was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but lived in Dumaguete City, Philippines, from ages 10 to 15. He returned to the United States afterwards, graduating from high school in New Mexico, before doing his undergraduate studies in San Francisco and post-graduate studies in New York City.
“In a way it’s purposeful in that I was never really interested in being known as a Filipino artist per se, but I also believe that there’s something so specific to the experience of living and growing up in the Philippines,” said Pfeiffer in a recent episode of So Jannelle TV, a Filipino-American lifestyle magazine show which airs US-wide on cable channels The Filipino Channel (TFC) and ANC, as well as on local Southern CA digital channel KNET 25.1. It is also available on social media platforms.
“To have early experience of living outside the US really informed my perception, made me realize that there’s ways of thinking about things or social conventions that when you’re just growing up inside of it you take it for granted. But then to step outside of it, to be in a different context, to see how people live in other contexts over an extended period of time, and then to understand how different contexts are related .
