Pabustan Caitlyn 
Keith Sarmiento 


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Pabustan Caitlyn Keith Sarmiento (b. 2002) is an artist who explores the monotony and mundane of everyday life.  Her practice navigates on perspectives of the everyday; how it is perceived, and felt about depending on the setting and context. She translates such data onto paintings or digitally to form animations which showcase the timeline of  prolonged experiments on experiencing different everydays when in a change of space.
Keith received her Diploma in Animation from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2022, and she’s currently pursuing the undergraduate of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
She has done her internship in Quinoa Media as Design Manager in 2021.
My practice centres on painting and 2D digital hand-drawn animation as methods of investigating the monotony and mundanity of everyday life. I am interested in translating the different perspectives of the everyday life to animation to oversee the timeline of experiencing the different everydays that can occur depending on the settings and context of different spaces.

In addition to visualising the perspectives, my practice involves time based painting animations to gather data on how the monotony of the mundane bleeds into burnout, by analysing daily paintings made purely on the current feeling of that moment.
Through this process, my practice explores how the mundane is classified as the mundane. Is the mundane purely monotonous, or depending on the perspective, could the mundane not be mundane despite being monotonous?





Title: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Year: 2026
Medium: Digital 2D Hand-drawn Animation, Projection
Statement:

An interpretation of what is unseen in an assumingly 
monotonous daily life and why certain situations branch 
out as so. This work is meant to put a mundane day in 
the perspective of 2D Animation to highlight occurrences 
that could affect the trajectories of our daily lives without 
us knowing and hence assuming that what’s happening 
is ‘normal’.