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.”

Read the full review by Liam Murphy


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

Thirtieth


2019.7.18
Released as part of LANTAU爛桃 (EP)


scroll back all the way to the beginning
memory leaks, glitches, unsorted, incomplete
summer days, river haze, blissfully ignorant
time out, dust to dust, ignorant is bliss

back from last time I knew it was a circle
a spiral, rather, upward and solo
round and around, same path I follow
different but the same, a joke I swallow

almost died last year, I know I didn’t
shattered glasses, twisted metal, in the bush hidden
said “luck! you got away with insurance monies”
granny who saved me said “kid take it easy”
said “you’re truly still meant to be here”
“we won’t forget the coast road from invercargill”
“will always think of you at your corner we travel it often.”
for these things they must happen for a reason

things are letters unwritten
in the bushes hidden
in the creeks hidden
in the hopes hidden

in the songs forbidden
the books forgotten 
regrets forgiven

attention, paying your biggest fortune
let it all go, dance! sleep. dance!
hug people often
wrap your arms around your own body
no curtains
clothing unnecessary
i mean, take a closer look
is it taken cared of lately
moments of crisis / zero degrees mornings
water the plants / damp pillow slips
touch upon touch / seasons changing
visualizations, positivities, weary airports
new leaves

by the time you remember time is renewed
time for doing nothing
for enjoying the joy
and feeling the feelings
cuz time ain’t circle it circulates in spiral
got time in no place and every place
no place at all

“you only are free 
when you realize you belong no place
you belong every place
no place at all.”