Schuchen Wang, Thesis '25

My thesis reveals the eternal loss and sorrow of women, seen through the changing status of the “divine woman,” a recurring figure from ancient Chinese mythology. Fluid lettering shaped from my own voice represents the hidden voices of drowned girls who became goddesses. The overlapping typography shows how female voices were hidden by literary traditions. Countless histories are layered in the text, and innumerable women intertwine with the divine woman. But the water flowing through their fingers and blurring the ink—is it rain or tears?

Rain and Tears

Schuchen Wang

Lettering of “beautiful” In the Visual Form of Clouds

The radius of circles that form the lettering is determined by voice volume reading poems about the Divina Woman.

Lettering of “slutty” In the Visual Form of Spreading ink

Lettering of “sorrow” In the Visual Form of Ripples

Representative Spreads of the Zine

A Magazine About Changing Status of the Divine Woman’s Imagery In Literature

Scanned Photos

The lettering on the top layer (blue one) is shaped by water level change when reading poems beneath water.

Vellum paper creates an overlapping situation that when all information inside the poem is layering together, it hides the original layer with lettering driven by voice. Instead, we can only see meaningless bubbles rising from the water.