Latana is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores identity, instability, and the emotional weight of a world in flux. Working across painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media, she builds layered compositions where beauty and fracture coexist — luminous surfaces emerging from tension, meaning carried in every material choice.

Her practice is shaped by a need to bear witness — to the sadness and complexity of the world, and to the quiet resilience of those who endure it. Time is her gravity. Gold speaks of the eternal and sacred. Transparency holds memory and distance. Rupture and light do not oppose each other in her work — they require each other. Rather than offering overt declarations, her work holds space for reflection: fractured forms retain their light, children stand inside the burning and still claim existence, landscapes shift between hope and unease. What persists is not spectacle, but quiet endurance.

Born in the United States and now based in Singapore, Latana began her creative path in photography, later expanding into sculpture and layered mixed media works that explored material, memory, and transparency. Painting became a space of clarity — a surface where her investigations into identity, rupture, and resilience could fully converge. While she continues to work across mediums, this period of painting has sharpened the conceptual thread that runs throughout her practice.

She is the author of three photographic books — Fragments, The Phukthar Monastery, and Barely Exposed — and her documentary series Sabah: Land Below the Wind is part of the permanent collection of the Sabah Museum. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections.

Her current work reflects an ongoing effort to understand what survives fracture, and how light persists — even when fragile.