August 2025 Postcard from Catalina Cariaga:
Catalina Cariaga wields the typewriter to create art and poetry. So I was quite honored to receive a postcard that displays the typewriter’s marks. I’m also amused that she typed up Ilokano phrases, like
“Ayayatanka! for “I love you!”
“susmaryjosep!!!” which is a derivation of the common expression “susmaryosep” that’s a conflation of Jesus [and his human parents], Mary, Joseph
“Ay Nako!!!” which is another common expression (whose other variation had been used to name my poetic invention “hay(na)ku”
“Wen, Kabagis” for “Yes, Sister”
These phrases are all integrated into an original collage that Catalina created on a postcard-sized backing. Agyamanac unay, Kabagis (Thank you very much, Sister)! Ayayatanka met!
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