Casino Relics
from Casino by Lavi Tang
Role - writing

“Statues in Vegas remind us that statues exist and what else can we even say? They’ve been stretched so far beyond any referent, what do they project but monumentality itself? This is a purely sensorial experience: feel magnitude and gravitas, no connection to memory. At most, we are granted recognition. This is an eiffel tower, this is a statue of liberty. This is my death when I am no longer inside history, but gazing at it through a hyperreal prism. 

Vegas is a city of amnesiacs. We’re helped to forget who we are and how much we have to lose when every repository for memory stands blank, pointing vaguely at itself.”

Walla Walla

Submission for zine on life during COVID. 

Role – Design and writing

“Out in the country where I was born. Having a sesh. Driving back before my parents got off work. There were combine harvesters down in the valley that night. Everything was quiet except for the dead hum of their motors. On the opposite hill there was a car. Its headlights were blinking...”