***SALVO*** and ***WARBLE*** film stills, 2020–22

Linda Zeb Hang’s conte of scanning voices cross-sections the invisible density, flavor profiles, and omniscient presence of the woven, yet frayed environment.

The fiber-optics of place, an artery area, a micro-climate theory, spacecraft language and calyxes of meditation make public their pocket cosmology.

Born in South-side Stockton, California to working-class Hmong refugees, they are rooted from the aesthetic and civic praxis of Southeast Asian Animistic, Shaman and Buddhist life-world.

They shape material behavior through technical experimentation, working spontaneously, collecting and generating information to arrive at a knotty mixed-media synthesis.

Flexibility, instinct and intuition are their chosen guides. Their tools are digital, machine age and ‘primitive.’

Founded in 2013, their mixed-media imprint FIST—with its production of drawings, prints, poetry, book design and hand crafted publishing are held within collective and public spheres, including Queer Work Archive (RI); the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC); Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library, Smithsonian Institution (NYC); The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union (NYC); University at Buffalo Libraries Special Collection, The Poetry Collection (NY); John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); Carl A. Kroch Library, RMC at Cornell University (NY); the Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center at the San Francisco Public Library (CA); Letterform Archive (CA); and The SFMOMA Library + Archives (CA).

LZH studied Sculpture, Typographic Design, Book Arts and Horticulture in San Francisco CA from 2004–07 and currently lives and works in Stockton CA and the Netherlands.

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