Yixin Chen

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2025
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When we eat alone, we often turn our attention to screens to fill the silence between the food and ourselves. This single-page comic depicts the lack of attention between humans and food. Too absorbed in their screen, the character becomes unaware of their surroundings, and even the food itself.

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2025, GradEX110
Toronto, Canada

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Yixin Chen aka. the19ave

Illustration

“Finding the uncanniness and the tenderness in mundane experience.”