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Thank You for Walking, New York, 2024

This is a compilation of writings written in the Spring of 2023, inspired by the prompt: walk, then write. In time, I granted my everyday a trove of memories, from which I slowly learnt to feel the weight of my words against this foreign city with its foreign noise. These are first drafts; for now, simply reminders of a routine that someday I’ll remember as gems.

I finally printed and binded them - this summer after I’ve graduated - when I felt a little lost and was searching through my own words to find my place in the city again. I was inspired by the works and lives of artists who have cherished New York City before me, and complemented a selection of their artworks with my own writing. I still feel awkward and nervous sharing my writing, but in their little book form, it feels better.

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Solar Eclipse, 2024
Artist book (Chinese Thread Book, or
奶奶的针线包
Japanese origami paper, and inkjet print
3 x 3 in.
Back in April, my roommate and I on a last minute whim decided to go up to Syracuse to catch the Total Solar Eclipse. Months later, in reading back my journal entry from that day, I decided to make this series of artist books.

I was reading Maggie Nelson’s Bluets on the bus ride up, and there was one part where she writes about the everyday sky; how in questioning “why is the sky blue?” we our reminded that as beings there’s only so much we can hold and remember, that we are a “mortal sieve”. And in seeing the eclipse with my own eyes, in that brief moment, I felt her words wholeheartedly.

In this artist book, pockets upon to reveal illustrations that depict experience: of the moon crossing over, so perfectly, the sun. With Nelson's excerpt in the back, and my own journal entry inside, this work became a keepsake of this forever memory.
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