volume 1
SYMMETRY OF VICE
SPRING 2022
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Symmetry of Vice is a study in the disintegration—of identity, of memory, of perceived wholes. It navigates the tension between sexuality, queerness, womanhood, youth, and the haunting echo of innocence—an innocence not lost, but disturbingly preserved, like taxidermy: beautiful, grotesque, and uncomfortably still. Through this collection, DEUX ITCH explores the idea of fitting things — memories, selves, bodies — into places intuitively, as an act of intimacy with the self.
Symmetry of Vice contemplates the fragmented body, the self refracted in the mirror, the eerie sense that we can only see ourselves when turned inside-out. In this space of distorted reflection, disassociation is a survival tactic. Familiarity becomes uncanny, and the microforms of daily life—the texture of routines, the quiet shapes of habit—offer a banal comfort amid existential noise.
This collection dwells in distant closeness—a symmetry of vices, where softness masks sharpness and distortion becomes clarity. It does not offer resolution but instead renders the act of unbecoming: a poetic unraveling that resists the binaries of sacred and obscene, flesh and object, being and performance.
It is a meditation on what it means to house contradiction in skin, to dress the soul in echoes, to feel one's self slipping yet held. It is about the unspoken language of preservation and decay, and how we try to make sense of ourselves by piecing together what was never whole to begin with.
Symmetry of Vice contemplates the fragmented body, the self refracted in the mirror, the eerie sense that we can only see ourselves when turned inside-out. In this space of distorted reflection, disassociation is a survival tactic. Familiarity becomes uncanny, and the microforms of daily life—the texture of routines, the quiet shapes of habit—offer a banal comfort amid existential noise.
This collection dwells in distant closeness—a symmetry of vices, where softness masks sharpness and distortion becomes clarity. It does not offer resolution but instead renders the act of unbecoming: a poetic unraveling that resists the binaries of sacred and obscene, flesh and object, being and performance.
It is a meditation on what it means to house contradiction in skin, to dress the soul in echoes, to feel one's self slipping yet held. It is about the unspoken language of preservation and decay, and how we try to make sense of ourselves by piecing together what was never whole to begin with.
shot in San Francisco & New York
Director, Designer, Editor: Errin Shin
Film Photographer: Errin Shin
Photographer: Rosa Luo
Photographer Assistant: Vesper Zheng
Hair/Makeup Artist: Yvonne Zhou
Stylist: Marianna Nouss
Talent:
Gabe Cywinski, Win Edwards, Kendario La’Pierre, Jazmyn Queen, Alexzandria Ashton, Annie Yin
Film Photographer: Errin Shin
Photographer: Rosa Luo
Photographer Assistant: Vesper Zheng
Hair/Makeup Artist: Yvonne Zhou
Stylist: Marianna Nouss
Talent:
Gabe Cywinski, Win Edwards, Kendario La’Pierre, Jazmyn Queen, Alexzandria Ashton, Annie Yin
DEATH CARD GROUP Exhibition
September 4, 2022Trans-Pecos Brooklyn, NY
Curator: Alexzandria Ashton
Host: Finlay Mangan
Designers: Errin Shin, Marianna Nouss, Teo Mata
Sounds by: Daiyah, Kozha, Morenxxx
