The Enigmas at Red Hook is a web-based collection of five short stories that I wrote and coded after taking the residency at DE-CONSTRUKT, Red Hook, Brooklyn. Inspired from my research about the Hurricane Sandy that hit the town in 2012, these five stories are “Fishbowl,” “Swallet,” “The Serpentine,” “Impurities,” and “Abyss,” each of which represents the Sandy-experience of a demographic group of Red Hook residents.
This multimedia work includes not only flash fiction, but also drawings, manipulated images, edited audios, and data visualizations, etc. As an assembly of contemporary folklores, a visual essay, and a multifaceted regional profile, The Enigmas at Red Hook serves as an elegy and provides alternative readings of the neighborhood’s entanglement with that tragedy.
The Enigmas at Red Hook Illustration