Emerging artist Janjan Day was born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii as first generation Filipino American. She explores themes of nostalgia, ecofeminism and duality within herself, expressed through images of femme identities and nature.

Early on, Hawaii’s local flora and fauna has heavily inspired her works of nostalgia, reconnecting back to her childhood. Over time, their work incorporates various patterns inspired by batok tattoos, polynesian tattoos, paisley patterns into her ecofeminist works, sparking conversations of climate change. Currently, she has been inspired by cybersigilism tattoos to incorporate themes of duality within oneself, conflicted between the world of post-industrialism with its modern technology and the agrarian world with its preservation of nature.

Janjan’s art education experience is unique: from childhood to adolescence she was highly invested in their art classes in school, learning basic skills from her art teachers in elementary school and middle school, later on abandoning art for a different career path. It wasn’t until her young adult years she returned to art as a way to navigate mental health, and has been a self taught artist ever since.

Since 2024, she has done live art and gallery walks at art events located in Nevada, and festivals in California and Oregon. They also appeared in themed art gallery exhibitions hosted by Makers Paradise, and Sierra Arts Foundation and have done public art mural paintings in Virginia City and Carson City.

Aside from being a professional artist, she aims to become an accredited art therapist. Art has largely impacted Janjan, in terms of improving her mental wellbeing. She hopes to encourage others the same path, to transform pain into art. She believes in using the creative process to alchemize emotions, transmuting them onto a canvas in order to understand oneself.