Hei Lam Ng Odds & Ends - chapter 1: confetti

Chapter 1: confetti contains only recycled matter and meaning. It is a gathering of personal glossaries and interests in how we define words in many languages. Two vocabularies come together to ask, in a deconstructed zine format, what do we mean, and how do we mean it? Package description: a package made with tracing paper reveals the colourful items inside (also indicated on the legend included): confetti bits, definition card, dictionary booklet, gibberish word, grandma puzzle, ground word, origami whale, handmade paper scraps, prompts for you, and word cap. 

Hei Lam Ng (she/her)

Hei Lam Ng is a Hong Kong-Canadian artist currently residing in Vancouver, BC, who has a great passion in artist’s books and printed matters. As a multilingual speaker of four languages (Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Japanese), she is very interested in language concepts and structures, and the ambiguity of translation. Hei Lam holds a BFA in photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2014), and a MFA in Studio Arts (Print Media) from Concordia University (2025). She is the founder of “bocchi projects”, an artist’s group that features, encourages, and endorses small run book projects by independent artists. “Bocchi projects” has exhibited Canadian artist’s book works across cities in Canada, as well as Tokyo and Taipei internationally.