shannon

😭ty sarah!!!

a long stretch of an accordion book standing upright. light falls through window cutouts in the pages on to the napping cat, who does a little stretch then goes back to sleep.

closed accordion book with a window cutout

first page of open accordion book. blue and orange window on the left, a cat napping in an armchair on the right

"catnap", 2025 / digital print

lmao still iterating on this concept a bit i took this book to a fair and reading it is KSDFL ORIENTATIONALLY LOCKED. which like, working as designed but also so so so stupid. anyway it's a book about "experiencing the weather you're already experiencing but smaller"

a small accordion book, closed. the cover is a pencil drawing of a ferry window from the interior, with the glass part of the window cut out revealing a sketch of the Seattle skyline on the page behind it

interior of the accordion book, a minimalist sketch of the Seattle harbor skyline looking south from downtown

skyline continued, crossing Puget sound and showing the outlines of Vashon and Bainbridge islands

"SEATTLE - BAINBRIDGE", 2025 / digital print of pencil sketch

a little book about taking the ferry

delicious pickles and beautiful zine the LUXURY

wah thank you!! i was so thrilled when i realized i had those 2 tones of kraft paper just laying around hahaha

thank you!! 💚

TY A!!!! 💚💚 i'm so excited by the possibilities of translucent vellum rn

thank you!!

this book will be on view at the William Paterson University Galleries in NJ through dec 4th!! www.wpunj.edu/articles/new... if you are nearby and go and take a photo i'll thank you forever lol i'm trapped on the west coast

TY SARAH! 💚 the translucent paper is SO fun to brainstorm ideas for hahaha

thank you jasmine!!

thank you!!! i feel like i've been unintentionally reducing the amount of drawing in my books to like zero hahahaha

a 2 inch by 2 inch book made of translucent paper with a single blue ripple and "6 08 2025" printed in red on the front. faded ripples are visible through the closed pages of the book

a spread of the book with ripples visible on both sides through the translucent pages

a different spread from within the same book

"2 sq. in. of rain at 9:15 AM on 8/6/2025" / digital print on translucent vellum

i held a sheet of paper in the little drizzle we got a few weeks back & took a slowmo video of the rain hitting it in order to transcribe 2 sq inches of rain from outside my front door to this book :)

TY ZOE!! the blue of the paper is doing so much carrying, i love to look at it

aw thank you!! i'm REALLY pleased with how the seagulls came out hahaha

thank you marya!!!!! 💚💚

a dark blue accordion book with a gliding paper seagull on the cover

reverse cover of the accordion book depicting wet sand and foam using kraft paper

unfolded accordion book. pages are screen printed with waves and dotted with seagulls, scattered and then accumulating towards the end of the book

the same accordion book laid out in a circle

"to shore", 2025 / screenprint, papercraft

a "squash" accordion book with a bunch of different papers glued to it hahaha. happy with this one!

slkfjsd unfortunately no but i definitely plan on bringing them to whatever the next zinefest/fair is... potentially sometime in the fall and almost certainly seattle-based!!

ahh thanks for picking up the moth&dirt books!! i'm so happy you enjoyed them!

thank you!!! i had a ton of fun making it 😊💚

TY ILINCA!!!!!!

pretty excited by the construction of this, the case is made from the leftover paper of the zine so it can all be printed on a single 8.5x11 sheet!!

a triangle of folded paper with a repeating sitka valerian pattern. text reads: soil survey. shannon kao. seattle, wa. snack break studio

three pinback buttons (a worm, a beetle, and a rolled-up pillbug) on a drawing of ferns

an open turkish map fold zine depicting the soil makeup of the stetattle-doubtful-arriva soil complex, with three pinback buttons depicting bugs.

i'll have this little turkish map fold zine called "soil survey" at seattle art book fair this upcoming weekend (may 10-11) at washington hall! come by and say hi!

ahh thank you!! very fish-forward of late hahahah

thank you!!

THANKS CAMILLE i'm dreading putting like fifteen of them together for the next zinefest hahaha

ty so much jasmine!! they were a ton of fun to design hahaha

thank you a!!! 💚💚 wrestling with the riso separations tiger AS ALWAYS

TY BECCA ME TOO <33 really happy w the way that turned out

thank you sarah!!! it's just stocked in the museum store & i'm not going to be there, so the EASIEST kind of con for sure hahaha