Living Here

Jeanne F. Jalandoni
Family Reunion (Ring Around the Rosie), 2023
Oil on canvas, cotton T-shirts, iron-on print, cotton and wool weaving, various fabric, machine knits, charcoal
Courtesy of the artist

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

“Most of my maternal family resides in Seattle, and my family would fly from New York City to spend our summers with them,” Jalandoni recalls. Family Reunion (Ring Around the Rosie) is an intimate memory of a childhood that has passed. The passage of time is quietly underscored by the inclusion of stripes from her mother’s 1970s-era scrapbooks in the background. As with many of her other works, Jalandoni personalizes the scene with photographic images of her family. It includes not only her cousins, her sisters, and herself, but also—in the framed portrait on the wall—the older generations. “There is a reminder of my family roots with the framed portrait of my mother, her siblings, and my lolo and lola (grandparents), who were farmers. My mother’s generation were the first to receive college degrees and then come to America.”