it’s 2025 so sending the update I forgot to send covering the rest of 2024, + some new year event updates…
art ✎
07 / 24-10 / mouth
A last few desperate steps. October's print, 4 colors (bright gold, bright red, teal, black)
08 / 24-11 / passage
The world spins. November’s print, in 4 colors (sunflower, fluorescent orange, teal, black).
Monthly riso print club was on break in December and for unforeseen reasons is also on break this January but as always you can learn more about my monthly riso print club + sign up for it here.
midnight - 8×8in, 4 color riso print (sunflower, fluorescent pink, blue, black). Printed a riso version of this piece from 2022.
Made some 2025 quarterly mini calendars! Designed so you can cut off the bottom part afterwards and have a set of mini prints. Individually punched + tied with hemp cord. 4×10in, riso printed with mist, fluorescent orange, and black ink on mist parchtone cardstock. I have a few of these left and will have some at some upcoming events…
other stuff ✷
Thanks to everyone who stopped by @ my table these past few months + bought stuff from my store! My first events of 2025 will be:
Jersey Art Book Fair (NJ) - Feb 22-23
MOCCA fest (NY) - Mar 15-16
As mentioned above / you may have seen on my social media that I’ve paused my riso print club this January for unforeseen reasons. You may or may not know I print at / volunteer with Endless Editions - basically the whole reason I started with riso in the first place and what makes my entire practice possible (also the team behind Brooklyn Art Book Fair if you’re in NYC). We were essentially moved out of our workspace and are now trying to downsize for a smaller space - you can help Endless clear out some of our archives (+ raise some $) and buy some books + old merch from our (very barebones last minute…) online store here.
Because of all this I’ve been much busier than I thought I was going to be so I did not have time to make a new year’s comic for 2025 :’) however I did throw scans of SKINNING, the riso printed version of last year’s comic into a free pdf if you are interested. You can also still read the original digital version here, and some of the thoughts behind it in my newsletter from last year.
Also some brief year end thoughts: outside of riso work I think I drew even less in 2024 than any previous year, and have some feelings about the sustainability of any sort of long term career in “art”… regardless I truly appreciate the interest people have in my work + the support you’ve shown over the years - thanks for sticking around for another one.
— a liang chan / formyths
read: When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut / The City & the City, China Miéville
watch: Love Massacre, Patrick Tam / The Most Terrible Time in My Life, Hayashi Kaizo / Birdshot, Mikhail Red / I’ve Heard the Ammonite Murmur, Yamada Isao
listen: 醜奴兒 The Servile, 草東沒有派對 No Party for Cao Dong / 침묵하고 부수고 답하기 Silence, Crumble, and Answer, 모시 mosi