Volume 5 Soft Concrete

My name is Long Xi Vlessing (龙喜; happy dragon) and I was born, and continue to live and work, on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including that of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations known as Vancouver. I work in many mediums, particularly photo and video, and am interested in explorative documents and storytelling, weaving personal narrative through depictions of the familiar and the undefined, friends and strangers, immediate family and random passerby, scenery and self. I grew up in a cross cultural household and find it important to explore both my experience as a half-Chinese, Jewish person and to feature diverse voices and people from my direct community in my work.