🩸 Body as Protest: A Block Printing Workshop | 女体图志：身体作为反抗 · 刻版版画工作坊
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Body as Protest: A Block Printing Workshop
女体图志：身体作为反抗 · 刻版版画工作坊
This is a block printing workshop where carving and printing become a way to reclaim the body —
to let it speak again. ✂️🖨️
这是一个 版画工作坊，
在雕刻与印刷之间，我们以身体作为反抗的起点，
让被压抑的部分重新发声。✂️🖨️
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They measure me with their gaze,
price me with their systems,
define me with their language.
When I bend my body,
my spine becomes a folded sentence —
each bone reciting the commands I once obeyed.
他們用目光丈量我，用制度標價我，用語言定義我。
當我彎下身體，脊椎如一條折疊的句子，
每一節骨頭都在低聲背誦我曾服從過的命令。
The body has been divided by medicine, religion, law, and art
into understandable parts — the “correct” proportions,
the “proper” posture, the “appropriate” silence.
But when we use our hands as pens and our skin as paper,
the body begins to speak. 🫀
身體被醫學、宗教、法律與藝術分割成可被理解的部位——
「美」的比例、「端正」的姿態、「得體」的沉默。
但當我們以手為筆、以皮膚為紙，重新描摹自身，
身體開始說話。
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About the Workshop | 关于本工作坊
In this workshop, we do not pursue beauty or correctness as defined by others.
Through texture, touch, hair, lines, scent, and breath,
we ask: Can we redefine what it means to exist?
在這個工作坊中，我們不追求他人定義的「美」或「正確」，
而是以觸感、線條、毛髮、氣味與呼吸，
詢問：我們能否重新定義「存在」？
You don’t need to know how to draw.
Bring your body — it already knows how to create. 🌫️
這是一場不需會畫畫的創作，
一次與身體重新對話的行動。
Through tracing, pressing, misprinting, and layering,
shapes shift, blur, and drift.
Mistakes become openings; misalignment becomes a coordinate toward freedom. 🗺️
在拓印、壓印、錯印之間，
我們讓形狀偏移、模糊、重疊，
讓錯位成為自由的座標。
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What We’ll Do | Workshop 内容
🧰 Learn the basics of block printing: carving, inking, printing
✏️ Create a sketch inspired by body lines, textures, folds
🔪 Carve your design onto a rubber block
🎨 Practice inking, test-printing, layering, adjusting pressure
🌿 Combine body-inspired marks with natural textures (leaves, petals, fabric)
🖨️ Complete 2–4 prints on paper and tote bag
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What You’ll Take Home | 你将带走
🧱 One linoleum block for carving
👜 One tote bag to print your design on
🔧 Access to all linocut tools: carving tools, 3 fabric inks, paper, brayers, pencils & pens
🖨️ 1–2 monochromatic prints + your printed tote bag
🌒 And a country within yourself — one with no visas, no approvals, no obedience.
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Practical Info | 实用资讯
👥 Capacity · 6 people
💲 Fee · $50 (All the fee goes to materials and labor preparation towards the event — your support helps sustain the artist and our space in Chinatown ❤️)
✏️ No drawing experience needed
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Closing | 结语
I rise again,
my body still trembles,
but it is no longer ashamed.
I find a homeland within myself —
a place made of touch, folds, and breath.