Field Notes (2026)
Type of work: Work / Community / Personal
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, Procreate
Overview: Field Notes is a zine that explores what it means to become through the four chapters Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. It is a self-made zine featuring film photos I have taken and illustrations drawn on iPad.
This project began with a realization that many human experiences exist as metaphor in the natural world. Breath, warmth, erosion, growth, and change are patterns that have existed long before us and will continue after we are gone.
Each chapter starts with an observation of the natural world before leading the reader into a personal meditation on memory, grief, belonging, and renewal. Together, these elemental encounters become “field notes”: small records of what can be learned by paying close attention to the connections that we form with others, with ourselves, and the world.
𓆝 𓆟 *･｡・.
Becoming is continuous. We are never static; we are always participating in cycles much larger than ourselves.
The Zine
B6, 54 pages.
Air is an ode to childhood and the beauty of wonder before grasping a complete understanding of the world.
Fire moves the focus from the individual to community. The chapter distinguishes between warmth—an innate human desire that can be found almost anywhere—and presence, which is more scarce and requires consistency.
Water observes impermanence through lived experiences of loss. Rather than resisting the reality of forgetting people and memories over time, the work embraces it.
The final chapter, Earth, returns to the body and to cycles of continuation. Living systems persist, and human life is viewed as an ongoing process of transformation.
