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Making Space
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1 min read
A short handwritten piece in graphite, commissioned by Pencil Magazine. I moved from Hong Kong to Canada at a young age. English came quickly and easily to me, while Cantonese suddenly felt alienating and burdensome. After struggling through a year of extracurricular Chinese school, I quit and completely fell out of practice. Cultural erasure of the self-inflicted…
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Full Circle
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1 min read
Publishing creative nonfiction through traditional mail.
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Disarming at the Precipice
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7 min read
An essay about The Work (2017), the heartbeat it documents by accident, and how being heard is a necessary salve for the wounds we all carry within us. Commissioned by Are.na Editorial for the Are.na Annual 2025 anthology. Edited by Meg Miller and Michelle Santiago Cortés.
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Ring a Bell
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1 min read
A short piece about Orin standing bells and the ancient casting method still used to produce them. Featuring Nanjo Kobo, a family-owned foundry established in 1839 in Kyoto, Japan. Commissioned by Heartbeat, an upcoming sound and music magazine published by Broccoli.