Paprika Xu

Designer / gardener in Lutruwita (tasmania) / aural, somatic, poetic / part of Common而間, a small workers co-operative that read books and make softwares / previously led product design at Canva / always becoming / once a tumble leaf


Music
LANTAU 爛桃 (EP)


“A release that carries an enticing feeling of benevolence communicated through poetic vocals and bright, imaginative production.”

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Writing
Poems

Moonrise Lisboa
August 22
離離
Vicikitsā
Thirtieth
Party history
Keep moving
The rules of three
[ 開 | 窗 ]
有這樣一天
蜘蛛的夢
搬家
爛桃
菌君讀毒
第十一種假設
壞天氣
蘑菇的網

沒有影子的牆
愛肯定理解愛
屏幕的慾望
溫柔的空氣
與其愛人不如養狗

走了好遠有點記不清
海濱道
I dream of wires



Translation
A Bleary Elapse (回忆模糊推演)



Haiku
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7


Miscellaneous


On Style (lecture) Creative & Design Con, 2020
Keep Moving (exhibition) Cocoon, Spectre, 2020
Touch (event) Great Offline, 2018
Meta Love (project) Pots for Swaps, 2018-2019
In for the Signal (talk) TechieCat HK, 2015

Party history


2021.02.20
For Gabe

Here we are at the party
At the dusk, where sky is almost all but light and
nothing but people and things passing by
passing down the warmth and colour
in exchange of comfort
or poetry
this country, almost nothing but light and
All but poetry
You and I are passing by

    We met by the mirage harbour
    We met again on the desert island
    Spacetime is amiss
    We met finally by a mirage harbour on a desert island of light

For the last time
you and I passing down the pages and backpacks
passing through the prehistoric rainforest
where life may as well be all lively and no living
passing through the dusk til it’s dawn
on the other side of me being your witness
your history
and you being mine
passing through our bodies down to each molecules
electric pulses
traveling across many oceans
you going towards your history, your poetry
as I march away from mine


Here, we arrived at the party
and party is over
snap the line now as
you and I passing by.