Terminator II

The artist's farm in Batangas provides much inspiration for this series of textile works. There she began experimenting with transferring the pigments of natural plants onto fabrics, which she then overlays with embroidery and frames them with remnants of indigenous cloth.

In Terminator II, (2023), part of her Humans as Predators fabric works, she embroiders a large winged skeleton that seems to stride out of the garden formed by cyanotype imprints of various leaves. The title refers to a critically-acclaimed science-fiction movie from the 1990s, in which a cyborg killing machine is reprogrammed and sent back in time to protect the future leader of the resistance who will save humanity from a malevolent AI. Javier's textile work is a reminder that in the natural world, humans are an apex predator and the responsibility for protecting the environment falls squarely on our shoulders.