to say what we see is a handmade zine by Sophia Cirignano and Laura Mota-Juang. The project began as an exchange of poem-letters written while traveling, a correspondence through which the two poets learned to know each other and to pay attention as a collaborative practice. In the final days of summer, they gathered on a balcony to make paper by hand, which they turned into small books, making their epistolary experience tangible.
Laura Mota-Juang is a Taiwanese-Brazilian shameless experimentalist from São Paulo and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. She's the author of Light Spill (Block Party Press 2023), a chapbook inspired by Physics’ imagination, and co-author of friend/shapes friend/scapes (2024). She is currently painting playful creatures on thrifted garments at No Fiction Projects.
Sophia Cirignano is a poet and papermaker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her poems appear in Headlight Anthology, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Baked Pears is forthcoming with Baseline Press in 2026. Her practice explores the intersection of papermaking and poetry.