Take a leaf out of someone’s book—there, in sprawling handwriting, is a meeting place: a bridge you once loved a few universes over. sinθ #23 “NOTES 帖” collects works that evade, that disguise, that make strange and that demand a second look. These works ask for your attention the way a footnote, a post-it tab, the bleeding of fluorescent highlighter into a page of your favorite book, or a letter slipped gently into your pocket would.

In this issue:
—Editor-in-Chief Jiaqi Kang speaks with designer Janny Ye; they discuss the evolving collections of her fashion label, seventyfive, her collaborative project, pomelo, and the centrality of memory and history in her fashion design.
—Quinn Leong’s ghostly self-developed film photographs defamiliarize the spaces in his everyday; —Angelina Han’s “I Ran Into My Past Self Today” collages an unexpected moment of re-encounter.
— Managing Editor Lis Chi Siegel chats with polymathic creator Xiaowei R. Wang about the impulse and process behind their projects, and the transformative power of innovative technology in a digital age that is both precarious and limitless.
—Juliette Wu’s digital illustration “Wedding Day” echoes Vivien Qian’s photoshoot “Perennial” in their contemplations on ritual and tradition.
—Web Editor Hayley Wu features Trevor Van de Velde for our Student Spotlight; they trace the roots of his musical practice, the intersections between culture and technology in his work, and what it means to center community in art-making.
—In Katie Hwang’s short story “A Catfish”, no one is who they claim to be—how can you know nothing about the person you know so well? Daisuke Shen transports us into a fever dream in his short story “God’s Eye”; T. Y. Christiansen’s “Notes on a Geography Field Trip” and Sarah M. Zhou’s “Movie Scene at a Midtown Bus Stop” stumble into and out of almost-discoveries.
—Poems by Ting Lin, Catherine Zhang, Shameera Nair Lin, Yasmina Jaksic, and Jonathan Chan brim with memory and tenderness.