Leaving Leaf By the Writing Table (2018), artist’s book, inkjet on tracing paper

A book unfolding my relationship with English through a series of writing on the English alphabet, modes of knowledge production in the English language, and the physical spaces where conversation and silence occur.

In the design of the book, I layout poems on my conflicting relationship with English alphabet through reinterpreting the empty space between words by intentionally enclosing, enlarging or filling the gap, which mirrors with the content of the poems on the power dynamics within conversation and silences. Seeing the book form pictorially also speaks to the pictographic characters of Mandarin Chinese, my mother tongue.