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Scarlett Guan

Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.

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    • To Knot Is to Hope
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Scarlett Guan

Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.

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The Museum Gift Shop Is Where Radical Art Goes to Become Tasteful

A curated museum gift shop still life with art books, a tote bag, postcards, a mug, design objects, and a receipt, showing how museum culture becomes portable through retail objects.
  • Scarlett Guan
  • May 5, 2026
  • Writings

Handmade Has Become the Art World’s Favorite Way to Disguise Labor

A warm still life of a handmade ceramic cup, woven textiles, packaging materials, shipping labels, a smartphone product page, and a handwritten cost breakdown showing the hidden labor behind handmade goods
  • Scarlett Guan
  • May 5, 2026

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