What Gives Us Our Names

He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people. To do this, he learned to watch quietly and look deeply , past the busy surfaces until he could discern the colours beneath, the ones that did not change. One by one he would name them as he wove them into his heart in the deep of night. He touched you once, borrowing pieces of your story in passing. They are here still, in case you wish to look.

NAME // SAKE is a reflective card game guided by the voices of Alvin Pang’s charcters. The cards act as a mirror, prompting you to remember what shapes you, what grounds you and what gives you your name.

(Digital PDF edition of NAME // SAKE is now available for download here)

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