Softness is safety and escape, comfort and disruption. But it's not productive.
Some questions that shape my work: Where is the line between truth and human invention? Who decided what you are? If our worlds are designed and invented, and if we now have machines to build almost anything, why not make it wonderful? Who decided this is it? Are we really in it for the self-optimization of it all? What about the first bite of a tangerine, the last star fading away at sunrise?
As the lines between myth, escape, and reality get more blurry, we can finally ask: where are we going with this? And decide that productive isn't the only way.
Ana Wang is a writer and multidisciplinary artist.
Prior to her current practice, Ana 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, then quitting 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.