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  • Farmhouse Gallery: Attunement

    Farmhouse Gallery: Attunement

    The Farmhouse Gallery: a rotating micro-art gallery offering a dose of art with every passing. Blue and I each curate two frames, with this exhibit exploring the theme of attunement. We hope this artistic project injects thoughtful art in your life alongside ours. Alyne’s Notes: Attunement is my word for 2026. It is a word…

  • Rachel Choi: a story of fierce love

    Rachel Choi: a story of fierce love

    Rachel Choi was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer in spring 2025. But that’s not the story I want to tell. I met Rachel 12 years ago working at Starbucks. She feels like a sister to me.Rachel is a keystone of our close-knit Starbucks crew. Community and collective care comes naturally to this group of…

  • Farmhouse Gallery: Transformation

    Farmhouse Gallery: Transformation

    Introducing the Farmhouse Gallery: a rotating micro-art gallery offering a dose of art with every passing. Blue and I each curate two frames, with this inaugural exhibit exploring the themes of change, transformation, and impermanence. We hope this artistic project injects thoughtful art in your life alongside ours. Theme: Change, transformation, impermanence  Alyne’s notes: I…

  • My writing practice

    My writing practice

    Writing has been a beloved space for me. Since childhood, it has been a way of making sense of myself and the world, and since 2016, I’ve iterated on a daily practice. I enjoy flexible frameworks to practice writing, but not too restrictive that I feel chained to a rigid structure or feel guilty if…

  • The sixth, part one: Waves of Inertia

    The sixth, part one: Waves of Inertia

    Part six of Inking stories of my ink. This is the third artist on my body, 3/3 for early career female asian artist. I met Kristin Yip through the Black Widows network, a team of female asian players on a mission to showcase female asian play in Ultimate. This post captures my excitement of playing…

  • Inking stories of my ink.

    Inking stories of my ink.

    A picture holds a thousand words, equally, ink can hold a thousand stories and meanings.Tattoos are stories, icebreakers, and best of all, indelible galleries of art to carry with you through life. I enjoy building pieces to layer onto another, taking inspiration from artists, symbols, events, and philosophies. I’m grateful for the artists who brought…

  • meet my new friend, kai

    meet my new friend, kai

    kai is my š““š“Ŗš“²š“«š“²š“°š“Ŗš“·, my ride or… 😶 because to ride is to set your soul free a privilege punctuated by rolling landscapes & green lights as asphalt and rubber burn below. To feel the gentle purr of an idling engine roar to life with the twist of the throttle in turn heightening my pulse on life fingertips to toes pressing earnestly into footpegs leaning, falling into the crook…

  • Watercolour Landscapes

    Watercolour Landscapes

    Inspired by personal photography.

  • Phone booth series

    Phone booth series

    In this series, I document the antiquated infrastructure of public phone booths. They are a microcosm of communication conglomerates, product placement & design – similar, yet subtle differences. It’s fascinating to see this ubiquitous technology fall into disuse, disrepair, transformation, and innovation. The map below marks the approximate locations of each phone booth photographed.

  • Alleyways of Austraya

    Alleyways of Austraya

    Short trip to visit Australia in 2019