What if we had it all wrong? What if productivity was a trap, and poetry wasn’t a test? What is softness was power, and disruption was a lie? What if friction is exactly what we need, not just a devil in growth’s disguise? Who decided what you are? Who decided this is it?
My work challenges the boundaries between myth, escape, and reality—and how we shape ourselves through self-asserted acts of invention and transformation. Whether through the repeated messages we can’t help but internalize, or the physiological impact of the colours, shapes, and scents around us, we are what we continually surround ourselves with.
And if we want it to be different, it’s time to ask: where are we going with all this?
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Ana Wang is a writer and multidisciplinary artist.
Drawing inspiration from all kinds of frontiers from the early internet to outer space to growing up, she weaves together disparate elements to explore the intersections of dream, reality, and human experience.
Prior to her current practice, Ana worked with textiles and form as a fashion designer, then spent over a decade in various roles in the creative industries, specializing in operations and e-commerce. She's written about fashion for Huffington Post, was a top writer on Medium, started a company featured on Vogue.com, and has sold multi-millions dollars worth of product as a copywriter. Her background also includes a stint in tech, which she quit in 2020 to pursue freelance and independent work through her studio and moniker, Wondermachine.
Inspired by all the ways we acquire, navigate, and actualize our worlds, Ana often plays with human invention and its language, rituals, products, and stories—including its myths. Her vision is to create contemporary artefacts that reorient our selves and spaces toward lives of poetry and not just productivity.
STOP AND SMELL THE POETRY.
Ana also runs the poem store, Rowses.