M A M A L A O H U

Jenne Hsien Patrick

RICE / BLOOD / SUGAR

An essay on heritage language in 18 attempts and a choose-your-own-journey through sounds and soundings. Moving through gestures of care, the chapbook transforms the text with every page turn, creating a new experience through language and memory with every reading.

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Bright Red and Flat Gold and cut and bound by hand. Second Edition November 2025

SEVEN SNAKES COLLABORATIVE SPELL POEM

Collaborative spell upon the occasion of the Seven Snakes Year of the Snake reading 01/29/2025 at Common Objects

Includes the beautiful words of ELI LIN, WOOGEE BAE, DUJIE TAHAT, JUSTINE CHAN, AMY HIRAYAMA, JENNE HSIEN PATRICK, and MITA MAHATO.

Original printed in Flat Gold, Bright Red and Sunflower on 8.5x14” vellum bristol paper at Paper Press Punch

Second edition printed by the Common Area Maintenance Print Shop for the CAM Monthly Print Subscription.

2025 TIME COVEN WOOD YIN SNAKE CALENDAR

Created for the occasion of the new lunar year 2025, with a calendar of Solar Terms and Lunar Months depicted on both sides.

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Green, Dark Teal and Flat Gold

OF BLOSSOMS

One page zine poetry comic inspired by Li-Young Lee, hand drawn frames and haiku.

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Hunter Green and Flo Pink

RETURN

A poetry comic about devotion and love, with imagery made from erasures of 1940's American romance comics.

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Aqua and Flo Pink

FOLLOW

One page wordless zine, following a thread of memory into the sky….

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Aqua, Bright red and Black

中秋节 / MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

One Page Zine about 中秋节 / Mid-Autumn Festival and a poem on a calligraphy scroll that hangs in my mother’s living room.

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Sunflower and Orchid

SOLAR TERMS ZINE PROJECT

One Page zines of each Chinese Solar term, tracking time and memory, connecting the threads of the calendar to this moment.

Ongoing project - hope to be completed in 2026

Above printed at Paper Press Punch in Light Teal, Flo Pink and Blue

THE MORTALS: A CATALOGUE OF LIVED EXPERIENCE

Ongoing Project of one page zines cataloging the daily roles of living, and how our mortal experiences are sacred.

Printed at Paper Press Punch in Bright Red and Aqua

IF YOU GO TO THE MOUNTAIN…

Printed at Paper Press Punch and Reclaim Clay, printed in various inks on paper, open edition and reprinted whenever I feel like it.