Palmarin Merges - 02Palmarin Merges is a Filipina American artist whose work draws from the desire to become more sustainable by re using materials close at hand and by adapting restriction as a generative force for creation. Trained as a Printmaker, she now works primarily in mixed media, especially household waste plastic, cardboard, etc. These common materials taken from the fabric of her daily life are processed and then transformed into pattern, collage and concrete