Sugar Water (1)
糖水 (1)
This zine series begins with mysterious and uncanny imagery, extending the dimension of Sha Luo’s photographs with tactility. Guided by deliberate observation and intuitive reaction, she captures ephemeral, mundane moments, layering them with tenderness and sensibility. Through her practice, she explores the ambiguity between reality and fantasy as well as the perception of tension and intimacy.
As she describes her works: “It’s about love—because everything connects to it.”
All photos were taken during the artist‘s residency at Hortus Arboretum & Botanical.
5 ½ x 5 ½ inch
22 pages, with with extended gatefold and french fold. Each features a unique bead design.
Artist: Sha Luo
Design: Zuya Yang
30 copies, numbered; printed in October 2024, Brooklyn
Laser Print
Production credit: Qiuyu Wu, Yuhan Shen
Touch It : Where We Call Home - Sydney Howard
In our first collection “Where We Call Home”, we explore the notion of home with lens- and video-based artist Sydney Howard. Together, We discussed how her family shaped her artistic practice and how art served as a healing process for her. Sydney’s work emphasized the materiality and the tactility of physical objects. We explore in this zine the dynamic between material and memory in her work. Her pieces, particularly the lace photograms, are presented on paper through risograph printing.
Sydney Howard is a visual artist from upstate New York, currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her multidisciplinary practice is primarily rooted in photography, video and installation and centers around themes of memory, trauma, gender and labor. She earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2024 and a BFA from Syracuse University in 2018.
5 x 7 ½ inch
28 pages, with gatefold spread
Artist: Sydney Howard
Editorial Design: Xinyuan Qu
Art Direction: zug press
150 copies, numbered; printed in August 2024, Providence
Mono-color Risograph; Laser Print
Production credit: Tam Stockton, Yuanhui Li, Yuchen Wang
Dreaming of Being A Butterfly
The illusion seems alive, the reality is still touchable. I can not tell which is more meaningful.
“Once upon a time, Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, a vivid and lifelike butterfly, feeling that it was enjoying itself. He was completely unaware of being Zhuangzi. Suddenly, he woke up, and then he was undeniably Zhuangzi. He could not told whether he was Zhuangzi who had just dreamt of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuangzi. There must be a distinction between Zhuangzi and the butterfly. This is what is called the Transformation of Things.” -- “Qiwulun,” Zhuangzi
The butterfly is me, and me is the butterfly. It flies through every breath in, every breath out.
- Zhu Gaocanyue
4⅛ x 5 inch
20 pages
Artist: Zhu Gaocanyue
30 copies, numbered; printed in April 2024, Providence.
Risograph with black ink, hardback, laser print with white ink. Accordion.
I Have Not Broken A Leg Yet
8½ x 11 inch
6 pages with extra 3 pages glued.
Artist: Zhu Gaocanyue
20 copies, numbered; printed in March 2024, Providence.
Risograph with medium blue and black, paper back, inkjet print. Stitch bound.
This Appears to Be a Tacit Agreement Between Us (NA)
这好像是我们之间的一种默契
2 x 7½ inch
16 pages with gatefold spread
Artist: Zuya Yang
20 copies, numbered; printed in March 2024, Providence
Laser Print
3½ x 2½ inch
60 Pages
Artists: Zhu Gaocanyue, Zuya Yang, Natasha Du, Ethan Brossard, Grady Sumrall
Art Direction and Design: zug press
25 copies, printed in March 2024, Providence7 colors Risograph
As creators from different backgrounds than the local ones, we attempt to document each procession we participate in from an outsider's perspective. We immerse ourselves in the deity parade, following the crowd in a detached state, moving towards the unknown. In this book, we use fragmented images to try to recreate the scenes of the deity parades as seen through the eyes of an observer.
- Ruishen Hong & Vincent Zhou
Artists: Ruishen Hong, Vincent Zhou, Cao Yi
Automatism Studio
Color Offset Photo Book
Distributed by zug press in United States
Artists: Vera Xia, Yao MENG, Cao Yi
Color Offset Photo Book
Distributed by zug press in United States