Jeanne F. Jalandoni
And Look! Piña Slippers (Tsinelas), 2023
Oil on canvas, cotton, cotton perle embroidery on piña, machine knits
Courtesy the artist

This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025

In And Look! Piña Slippers (Tsinelas), Jalandoni highlights the cultural and personal histories that enrich the Filipino diaspora. Jalandoni reimagines Cinderella’s glass slippers as tsinelas made from piña, or pineapple-leaf fiber. Introduced to the Philippines by Spanish colonizers, pineapple plants provided an alternative to an older traditional cloth made from the abacá plant. Piña textiles were exported to Europe where they became garments for the rich. In the Philippines, they were used to make formal clothing such as the barong tagalog. These slippers are a reminder of the country’s presence in the global economy and piña’s historical association with beauty and status.