Knotting Culture, Carving Culture: Making a Record by Hand
A 2021 project archive for an installation of rope, wood, canvas and stone, developed through knotting systems, maps, sketches and performance.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Category Writings
My Home, My Hometown: Coal, Clay and Poetry Painting
A 2021 project archive tracing coal, clay, literary inheritance and a five-panel painting series back to an encounter with falling leaves.
Isn’t It Beautiful? Stacking a City from Pringles
How Pringles cans, parallel domestic routines and an insistent question became a playful city about repetition, tenderness and shared belonging.
The Museum Gift Shop Is Where Radical Art Goes to Become Tasteful
Museum shops make art portable, accessible, and ownable. This essay asks what happens when political difficulty is translated into tasteful objects and cultural identity.
Handmade Has Become the Art World’s Favorite Way to Disguise Labor
An essay on how “handmade” aesthetics can conceal labour, exhaustion, unequal production, and the economic systems behind contemporary art and design.
Poetry Paintings: Coal, Ash, and the Materiality of Resistance
A project text on poetry, painting, coal, and ash, where language meets fragile material traces and the memory of labour.
Look On My Works!
A project text tracing ambition, ruin, memory, and the unstable afterlife of monuments through material and language.
To Knot Is to Hope
A project text on knotting as repetition, attachment, endurance, and a quiet material form of hope.
Bird Series
A project text on the Bird Series, using coal and ash drawings to hold movement, fragility, memory, and disappearance.