Meet bykaiasilo:

hi, i'm kaia silo. but you can call me kai!

chaser of love, catcher of love. most of all, caught by Love.

silly, messy, joyful, warm.

undoing, unravelling, untelling. doing, raveling, telling. undone, unraveled, untold.

my story starts in the Philippines. i wasn't born there, but nanay and my mom were. and i am both nanay and mom.

mom was 11 when nanay brought my mom and her siblings to the states. as with all immigrants, they came for a better life.

mom, she grew up an artist. a good one. but, one learns that artists don't get to be artists when you have to be the home's breadwinner.

well, she breadwinned. wonned? because i got to go to college to be an artist. :) to be a photographer. my mom sacrificed her artistry for mine to live. if that doesn't sound like Gospel, i don't know what does. other than the actual Gospel, of course.

my photography is me, but it is them, and it is my dad, and it is my sister, and it is all of my family.

and when we meet, it will be you, too. it is and you are my ministry.