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Projects: Featured Work

art with constraints

At the intersection of art and science lies art with constraints. When I first picked up a pencil to write and draw, I realized that the constraints had been there all along, that individual components could always answer to a total form ...

November 4, 2023

something casual

I met him on a boat the first day the sun peaked through our cloudy city, bathing Seattle in layers of sunburn and reinstated extraversion. He was from everywhere and nowhere all at once, the son of a diplomat who phased through Asia, Africa, ...

September 24, 2022

late night musings with august

Alice: Do you ever have this sinking realization that you have full control over how good or bad of a person you turn out to be? And that even though you tell yourself that the bad sides of you are inevitable or “just a phase,” you in actuality ...

June 7, 2022

the last post-surgery

It was hard to explain why I couldn’t just take the Ibuprofen. I didn’t even know myself. Maybe it was because this was the last time I would feel pain from an incident dragged out 13 long years, and numbing such a pain would be a cop-out ...

July 21, 2021

a letter to one of my favorite youtubers

I’ve watched MommyTang since I was a junior in high school, back in 2016. She was recommended to me by a friend who claimed that MommyTang’s sarcastic personality mirrored that of her own mom. This time period ...

June 20, 2020

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