I Know What I Don’t Want – Danny Lim, 45
I don’t know what I want. I want many things big and small. But I don’t know if I really want them. My most frequent answer to most things is “I don’t know”. Or at least it used to be. Read more
Dearest S – Betik Lelo Tan, 56, artist
Dearest S, Thank you for your letter. I would dearly love to handwrite and illustrate my reply but post offices seem so far away by foot here. What do I want? I want sex. Sex is integral to being a Being and not feeling like a cup or a plastic clock or something with eyes and two legs. Read more
I Want A Reset – JJ, 30, artist
Letters To What We Want is a series of letters composed by friends, responding to the question ‘What do you want? In 2021 and beyond?’. Read more
Setting My Altar – Syar S Alia, 32, writer and facilitator
I keep an altar in the home I’ve been living in for 3 years now. I knew I wanted to set my altar with manifestations of my intentions as we left 2020 and moved into 2021. I wanted to do something that wasn’t writing words. And I knew that I wanted to build a house with a broken heart in it. Read more
Dear Mermaid Emoji – Anonymous, 24, writer
If I want anything at all, I want you to be able to see your family again. If it’s not too much for me to ask, I also want for everything to turn out alright for you in the end. Read more
Dear Grey Diamond – Grace, 31, beauty writer
All of the last eight months I have been thinking of you, since the day you announced yourself in my dreams by way of this jewellery shop I saw on the Instagram Explore Tab. Read more
Slowmix 2 – WOLVES
Slowmix is an online multimedia mixtape series, consisting of things I like or find interesting. At the end of 2020 I made you a slowmix called WOLVES with: an amulet, folktales, horror zines, a Russian painting, binturongs and animal guts. Read more
Slowmix 1 – SPARRING
Slowmix is an online multimedia mixtape series, consisting of things I like or find interesting. It’s performative, but not in the way I associate with social media, more like when you want to impress someone you care about. It’s partly ‘do you see how cool I am?’, but equally, trying to get closer by sharing… Read more
