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Issue 4: Metabolizer

In-Between: Painting the Energies of Translation

This essay examines my position as someone in-between Bai culture—neither fully inside nor outside. Using Fei Xiaotong’s concept of “field,” I explore how this in-between state shapes my relationship with cultural identity.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

The Window and Its Veil: Drawing the Dialogue of the Inside and Outside

This essay explores the inbetween state through the domestic window grill, analyzing it as a paradoxical boundary, threshold, and portal to affirm liminal fluidity.

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Issue 3: Unresolve

Diphylleia grayi: In-between

A reflection on thresholds through an intertwined practice of drawing and embroidery, exploring the relationship between line, body, intimacy and existence.