Jela Morales

Co-Founder & Head of Creative

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2/5000

Paper clay, plaster, and acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches

2/5000 revisits the two fish of the miracle story, illustrated as forms breaking open and emerging from themselves — multiplying in fragments, caught in the tension of becoming more. Influenced by Ang Kiukok’s angular intensity and expressive distortion, the artist uses Klaypel to render the fish as splintering shapes pushing past their own boundaries.

Created in a season of drought and endings, the work becomes a reminder that what rises from the uncertain sea can be taken up and turned into provision by the One who commands its waters.

Commander's Table

Paper clay and acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches

Rendered in restless, textured strokes, Commander’s Table captures a moment inside a military quarters at Fernando Air Base, Lipa City. A wide window frames the landscape outside, grounding the scene in openness and ease, while the wooden dining table is the center of the home.
Morales presents it as the setting for the most fulfilling days of their lives so far—a season of joy and simplicity, far removed from the years marked by unforgiving burdens and politics of military life. It is a fullness long in the making, arriving like a reward for a lifetime of service.

Carrying a hint of Van Gogh’s melancholy, the painting honors the ninth temporary home the artist’s family has known. With the chapter nearing its end, Commander’s Table becomes a portrait of an ending that arrives gently, closing a season that was finally good.

The True Vine

Acrylic and paper clay on canvas
18 x 24 inches

This piece reimagines the True Vine as the quiet force holding the dream together, a living line from which every symbol draws breath. Inspired by Joan Miró’s surreal language, the forms float, unravel, and reconnect, each one fed by the same life-giving source. These forms create a tapestry on sand-like texture, representing the realm of dreams.

5/5000

Paper clay, plaster, and acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches

5/5000 turns to the five loaves from the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand, depicted as whole forms with gentle cuts — a prelude to sharing — surrounded by a whimsical glow that suggests how they might have risen to multiplication. Drawing from Ang Kiukok’s charged visual language, the artist uses Klaypel to portray the loaves as vessels of provision.

This piece carries the artist’s desperate plea for manna from heaven in this season of uncertainty and weariness.

Weight of the Waters

Oil pastels on watercolor paper
24 x 18 inches

Weight of the Waters stacks Filipino fishermen, among the poorest of the poor, into a tight, upright composition that reflects the heaviness of a livelihood the nation depends on but rarely values. Shown from different angles yet bound by the same daily struggle, the figures call attention to an ever-present and long overdue issue in a country that, continues to overlook the very people who steward its waters.

At the center, a fisherman shoulders a large fish filled not with bounty but with trash—symbolizing how poverty, pollution, and even corruption converge to weigh down those with the least.

Anjela centers on paper as her primary material, exploring playful intersections of painting and sculpture. As Klaypel’s second-generation lead—continuing a kiddie art craze from the 2000s—she reimagines paper clay with sustainability in mind.

Her process-driven approach bridges commerce and craft, embodying her advocacy for therapeutic, accessible art for autism communities, those in medical care, women’s shelters, and other underserved groups. Guided by a global vision and pursuing her MFA to elevate her practice, she hopes to bring Filipino creativity and its restorative power across borders.

Jela Morales

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