• Garden Dream

    Yan Jing Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 COVID lockdown restrictions have just loosened. My parents and I begin to go on walks in secluded parks, doing our best to avoid large crowds. On this particular day, the sky is a dusky, lampshaded orange, and we’re on an empty back path somewhere in Hort Park I…

  • TAKE ALL YOU CAN / EAT ALL YOU TAKE

    Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 4. I hold up my phone to take pictures the signs on the wall have told me I shouldn’t. In a long hallway, locked doors with only darkness behind glass panes that will sooner break than open. On the ones I photograph: yellow tape, torn so as…

  • The Ordeal of Being

    Pencil, gold leaf and gouache on paper Gloria Tang Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 I am Gloria, a self-taught artist who picked up painting as a hobby during circuit breaker. I post my work on Instagram @gouachedaway. Art is an avenue of catharsis, and a love language to express my gratitude towards the life I’ve…

  • Green

    Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 The sun shines differently in Lim Chu Kang, she told me. She didn’t say that we wouldn’t be bothered there—because the estate was abandoned, because it was between military exercises, because the people who thought it was interestingly haunted had better things to do than skip school…

  • Wayfinding

    after Marla Bendini’s Where are we going? Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 Tell me the one about the wine-dark sea. Goddess, I wander and am lost. A man told me once that he was tired of hearing songs about the sky, felt that everything the heavens held had been touched so many…

  • There Were No Years in the Years Before Shame, No First Stirrings of What It Meant to Yearn

    Marla Bendini Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 In response to Andrew Devadason’s suture Marla Bendini (she/her/they/them) is a cross-disciplinary trans and non-binary artist working in painting, text, installation, sound and performance to articulate the infinitely faceted transgender experience on their own terms.