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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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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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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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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Whale Puppets!


Through material and movement, puppets animate stories beyond the spoken word.

(Also, they’re really fun to make.)

(And whales are super cool.)

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More Puppets!


More fun!

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The Puppet


Thinking and making around the word manipulate.

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Place Setting: A Timesheet of Loneliness


Sad and homesick.

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