停 Stop!

Illustration zine / 24 p / Risograph / 14.8 cm * 21 cm / 2025


‘Stop!’ is a hand-bound book that revisits my childhood belief in having telekinetic power. 

Built from pastel drawings and printed in 3-colour Riso, it preserves the grainy, unstable texture of memory itself. The story traces how a simple act—shouting ‘stop!’ at a rolling pencil—once felt like a real superpower, shaped by imagination and emotion.
As the narrative reflects on love, hate, and hope as forces that once felt physically potent, the work considers how these sensations fade yet never fully disappear. Through its intimate scale and imperfect layers, Stop observes how childhood logic transforms with age while still quietly informing how I understand feeling and possibility.






Cheers!

Illustration zine / 32 p / 14.8 cm * 21 cm / 2024


For me, the act of toasting is both familiar and unfamiliar. In social gatherings, I often find myself standing and exchanging "cheers" with unfamiliar faces, lifting one glass after another. I'm not sure what it signifies, but Iawkwardly join in, clinking glasses with them.

‘Cheers!’ is a zine of illustrations. Through the simple yet profound act of toasting, it evokes a series of emotional resonances and insights. 
The illustrations present those subtle and precious moments at the dinner table throughdelicate images and words that become a beautiful meditation on love and minutiae.





Chasing the Aurora

Picture Book / 36 p / 24 cm * 24 cm / 2024


The source of this picture book is my failed trip to chase the Aurora, a journey that made me rethink the meaning of travelling. In order to achieve the goal, we often miss a lot of scenery along the way. Is the goal the only ultimate meaning in travelling?
 I don't think so. 

It's the ‘misses’ that make the surprises.





London  Landscape

One Page zine / Risograph/ 29.7cm * 42cm / 2025


When I contemplate this city, I instinctively picture it as a pile of building blocks. As I reconstruct London, London reconstructs me.






Pinch  Pinch

One Page zine / 29.7cm * 42cm / 2024


Observations in Jingdezhen. 




Unité

Handmade zine / 21cm * 29.7cm / 2023


The series consists of 2 one page zine depicting my reflections on the process of urbanisation.






瞬间、心重合

Handmade zine / 21cm * 29.7cm / 2024







Henshin(变身)

Handmade zine / 4cm * 15cm / 2023


A handmade zine in a special shape that records bits and pieces about falling in love.
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