Writing Portfolio

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Philo

sophical

Excerpts

r|OUT|e_122_David & the Door

Part of Someone Pour ME a Kapwa Tea, this philosophical r|OUT|e traces the externalised passage of relational fracture and memory. It is the voice at the threshold — an invitation, a loss, a door.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Philosophical Excerpt (Book I)

Year: 2025

Door the & David_221_e|TUO|r

The depth mirror of David & the Door, written from the e|TUO|r dimension of the Möbius Codex. An inward spiral of grief, truth, and symbolic recognition — this piece inverts the outer narrative to reveal the truth beneath.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Philosophical Excerpt (Book II)

Year: 2025

r|OUT|e_268_Silver Spoon

The outer-facing route of the Spoon Silver pairing — this excerpt maps how external perceptions of privilege distort the inner reality.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Philosophical Excerpt (Book I)

Year: 2025

Spoon Silver_862_e|TUO|r

A depth-layer philosophical excerpt confronting birthright, class, and the inheritance of shame. Subtle, layered, and poetic.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Philosophical Excerpt (Book II)

Year: 2025

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pour ME

a Kapwa tea

 

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Kapwa tea

Anybody?

 

Essays and Reflections

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

A philosophical essay and exhibition framework exploring ego, shadow, and relational seeing through Jungian psychology and Pakikipagkapwa Tao.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Conceptual Essay & Exhibition Framework

Year: 2025

Crown Jewels

A sharp-tongued reflective critique on beauty, pain, and philosophical symbolic wealth. Skewers adornment and the gendered body with humour and embodied intellect.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Critical Reflective Statement

Year: 2024

Buhok, the Ties that Bind

A creative critical essay examining hair as archive, grief as inheritance, and migration as memory.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Creative Critical Essay

Year: 2023

 Critical & Curatorial Writing 

Papuni Punarlka

A critical review of Indigenous art, grounded in relational observation and ethical critique

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Critical Review

Year: 2023

Mental as Anything

A curatorial premise reclaiming mental illness as fertile ground for clarity, creation, and care.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Curatorial Essay

Year: 2023 

 Project-Based Documents 

 & Public Writing 

Dirty Laundry

A textile-based confession project transforming anonymous secrets into collective healing. Includes full grant proposal.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Grant Application & Conceptual Framework

Year: 2023

Food for Thought

Full exhibition catalogue curated, designed, written, and art-directed by the artist. Includes main essay, artist bios, and original front/back cover art.

Written by: Andie McGovern | Iyang Faderog

Medium: Exhibition Catalogue

Year: 2024