We did a special release of pandopticon 【熊猫之眼】 (Doll Hair, 2025) at Winslow House Project‘s open house, where Danielle created the interactive zine as an artist-in-residence in April.
pandopticon currently remains a limited edition release courtesy of Winslow House Project in Vallejo, CA. The project is funded through a residency stipend from the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, where initial research for the zine was conducted in March.
pandopticon is an exploration of surveillance — perception — image, focalized through the experiences of vulnerable pandas Fei Fei, Jin Dudu, and An An. We issued 60 copies for our first run, distributing 45 to guests and mailing out the remainder to family and close friends. Each zine is bound in jute twine and comes with a story within a story, one of five love letters narrated by Jin Dudu to An An, allowing readers to swap and collect the individual vellum paper inserts. The lettering on the cover is hand-written, applying Chinese inkstone and brush technique to recontextualize the role of Chinese calligraphy within a postmodern landscape.