Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs healing, meditation, divination, exorcism and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge.
His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and their syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
