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Smoke Girl Matchbox


smoke girl series, 2022
Oil pastel on paper
210 x 148 mm
20 frames

​​​​​​​Smoke has been a recurring pattern in my works.

To me, smoking is a form of expression. Of how people hold their cigarettes, either with their thumb or between their index and middle finger. The way they inhale slowly and then release the tension. It tells a story while saying nothing at all. 

Deep down I want to be like smoke. Carefree, formless, transient.





matchbox flipbook zine, 2023
35 x 50 mm | 30 pages
Japanese Stitch Binding

Use the matches as you wish, light a candle, smoke a cig or burn the expectations that weigh you down.



animation & flipbook by tze earn
photography by jin


Smoke Girl Matchbox
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Smoke Girl Matchbox

A matchbox flipbook zine created and showcased at the Kuala Lumpur Illustration Fair 2023.

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