Saint Malo Baggu Bag by Stephanie Syjuco

To celebrate Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, Prospect New Orleans has collaborated with artist Stephanie Syjuco to create a limited-edition Baggu bag featuring a design from her new work for P.6, Phantom Visions (The Lacustrine Village of St. Malo). Known for her evocative explorations of history, identity, and cultural memory, Syjuco reimagines St. Malo, the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States, through striking black-and-white wheat pasted images.

The bag design draws from engravings of St. Malo that Syjuco sourced from an 1883 Harper’s Weekly essay, inverting the original black-and-white images so that structures and figures appear in ghostly white against dark backgrounds. These hauntingly beautiful images reflect themes of resilience and erasure, echoing St. Malo’s legacy and its environmental impermanence as the Louisiana coastline continues to erode.

This limited edition Baggu bag is available during the exhibition run of Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home. Learn more about Stephanie Syjuco's  practice and latest installation here.