Sofia Ella Quimbo is a maker and design researcher whose work engages with historiography, postcoloniality, and the limits and possibilities of language. More info.

︎ MFA Candidate at Pratt Institute
︎ Fellow at Pratt Center for Community Development


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Sofia Ella Quimbo is a maker and design researcher whose work engages with historiography, postcoloniality, and the limits and possibilities of language. More info.

︎ MFA Candidate at Pratt Institute
︎ Fellow at Pratt Center for Community Development


︎︎︎ Email
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ LinkedIn



Listening to Silence


Silence is often framed as absence in historical narratives—an omission, an erasure, a void that needs to be addressed. But silence is not empty. In fact, it shapes how memory survives in the wake of a decades-long repression.

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Last updated March 2025



I Knew Them Only Through Pictures and Letters



Unfolding, refolding, collapsing, and expanding the nearness between myself and my American ancestors.

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Last updated March 2025


A vertical cotton duck sheet, torn in many places, patched up with smaller illustrations of whales and harpoons printed on Belgian linen. In the center, a letter of apology to whales, also printed on Belgian linen.

Ontology of a Living Organism



Whales are sweet, curious giants. It broke my heart that we once hunted them so fiercely.

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Last updated April 2024


A quilt made up of beige, orange, yellow, brown, and lilac squares printed with textures and with botanical embroidery on the right-hand side.

Mapping the Area Surrounding the Pratt Library



Mapping with feeling.

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Last updated February 2024


The puppet, an old man with a large bald head, bushy rainbow eyebrows and beard, wearing a voluminous muslin robe.

Matanda (Rod Puppet)



Central piece of thesis proof of concept (thesis still in progress!)

This puppet helped me think about ‘kapwa’ (roughly translated: interconnectedness of self and others).
Last updated November 2024



Food Injustice



Thinking and making around food as art and status symbol and as commodity versus human right.

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Last updated October 2024



The Puppet



Thinking and making around the word manipulation.

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Last updated November 2023



Place Setting: A Timesheet of Loneliness



Sad and homesick.

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Last updated November 2023
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