Topher Maka is a Filipino-American painter and illustrator local to San Francisco, CA. Influenced largely by Asian-American vantages, street art, nature, and community, his art seeks to teach and provide empowering narratives. Using vibrant colors and personally expressive themes, the aim is to provoke and engage in ineludible conversations. Many of his works discuss the issue of increasing visibility of cultural self-worth through magnified and illustrative interpretations in effort to feed the soul.