glasses/ 2025/
glasses is an artist's book examining the act of seeing, centered on the word "see" and its tools, glasses and sunglasses. Its form derives from paper film (紙フィルム), borrowing its framing to ask how the meaning of "see" is framed. The book is charcoal drawings of glasses with holes, Risograph-printed from photographed originals. Wire-binding keeps it open and non-linear. Each copy includes black paper glasses with hand-punched holes, shifting vision from the page to the reader's eye.
everything/ 2025/
everything traces memory through absence. It began with a question: why am I still listening to Wu Bai? That led back to where they were first heard. The zine pairs Google Maps screenshots from 2014 (digital print) and 2018 (Riso print) of my grandparents' vanishing woodhouse with drawings of what was inside. Song titles reconfigured to mimic demolition. Bound through a hole punched at the centre of each, leaving it incomplete, a reminder that each sees a different picture through the same gaps.
SHH/ 2024/
SHH is an illustration zine series, each issue on a different topic. The title means two things: a call to listen, and the things we do not talk about. Each merges a comic, a poster, and a "SHH" quiet sign into one A2 sheet. Volume 1 is rooted in Penang Hokkien, linking a fading dialect to personal expression, and a quiet act of preserving it. Printed in Risograph, it folds into an eight-panel scene roll inspired by computer-form paper. Published in collaboration with Bang Bang Zine, Malaysia.
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SUNSHOWER CITY: ONLY TOURIST/ 2023/
Pondering the significance of one's hometown as time passes. Do they exist or are they a mirage? An illustrated zine, set in Sunshower City, Penang, Malaysia, centres on ordinary people who are seen in public spaces like kopitiam and ferry. The zine attempts to capture the absurdity of everyday life from the perspective of a tourist.
Other than our nostalgic filters, what does "hometown" mean?
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