Designer · Illustrator
I'm a haunted living ghost wandering around the past, telling the stories of the forgotten, the avoided and the ignored.
Expectation is a form of violence.
I hope to function as a portal – words, images and information pass through me and emerge in altered perceptual forms.
Creative Boom profiles artist and independent publisher Vanilla Chi, exploring her philosophy of ego-death and her experimental approach to bookmaking. Through her studio Pearl Slug Studio, Chi creates publications that challenge conventional reading, drawing on Buddhist philosophy, folklore, and anthropology. The article highlights her projects 'Snakelike, Through These Grasses' and 'Eyes Close... the Words Open', which transform reading into performative and fragmentary experiences.
The article covers illustrator and independent publisher Vanilla Chi’s talk at Nicer Tuesdays New York, where she discussed the evolution of her maximalist illustration style. She explored how her East Asian heritage informs her creative process and shared insights from her self-publishing projects.