phnom penh. musicians, artists and chefs of vietnamese cuisine are welcome to get in touch and ask how to get involved in ‘autumn leaves.’ a popup. a celebration. a cross-cultural exchange. with food and conversations and hopefully some jazz. to be held at a private residency in phnom penh for just a handful of people who have been part of conversations all year, about what’s coming, and how we can make it. together.
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autumn 2020 and autumn 2021
ho chi minh city. this project began in the seasons of autumn in 2020 and 2021 in ho chi minh city. honestly I had no idea I was going to get so deep into one district in one part of vietnam, which is a corner of asia all its own of course and can take a lifetime to explore. (like any foreign exile stint, though, you may have to give up parts of yourself, though, to do that. and i tend to leave before that). i was in that city for the 20 months of ‘waiting for the end of waiting,’ since the pandemic meant borders closed and i had to find my way towards something that wasn’t what i had had planned.
i best remember the studio. the soft books made of traditional papers of vietnam. the brand identity design for the whole celebration of it; a year of making, making the new things, and making the new things without a care in the world who would read them, later. the name is ‘leaf’. the feeling is… whatever you want it to be. i started a new photoblog on a japanese version of medium to put together some visual highlights. still working on it. day by day. as was the technique, that time, over there.
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