fifi rae
©2024
design
Quietly, I migrate. Quietly, I glitch. Quietly, I SWEAR I WAS HERE. I still am. Quietly, my ghost resists! (2025)
Photo book layout based on my senior thesis installation, designed on InDesign, printed book maquettes bound with hand-sewn red thread, 8.5 x 5.5 in.
1,296 American visa ID photos edited on photoshop to spell out my Chinese name in English letters and Chinese characters, select photos from 60 edited and glitched photos of personal family archives, found images of ghost ships from the internet, online archives of Chinese adoption to the U.S., and the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library archives including the Asian American Studies Newspaper Clippings (Adoption - A1 Transracial), Finding Aid to the Him Mark Lai Papers (AAS ARC 2000/80, Ctn. 1:9 Adoption from China, n.d. and AAS ARC 2010/1, Ctn. 1:7 Adoptions from China 2004-2007).
back cover & front cover
p. 1 & 2
p. 3 & 4
p. 5 & 6
p. 7 & 8
p. 9 & 10
p. 11 & 12
p. 13 & 14
p. 15 & 16
To read my senior thesis statement, click below:
Why Aren’t You Dancing? (2024)
Cassette packaging designed using Photoshop.
Linoleum block print, zine 8-fold, mixtape zine inside cassette case, blue, red, and black ink, case is approx. 5 x 2.5 in. Made 45 cassette zines and gave away most of them for free. Click here for the playlist!
Cassette packaging designed using Photoshop.
Linoleum block print, zine 8-fold, mixtape zine inside cassette case, blue, red, and black ink, case is approx. 5 x 2.5 in. Made 45 cassette zines and gave away most of them for free. Click here for the playlist!