Property Journal

From the Book Works website: 
From December 2021 to December 2022, artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam kept a record of each time real estate, property or housing came up in conversation. She called this the Property Journal.

Over the course of a year, neighbourhood landmarks are demolished, politicians break promises, friends despair, and parents age. Mould appears to grow on Lam’s face moisturiser; as property organises people’s lives, it also overtakes them. What began as a simple framework soon becomes an index of precarity, told through the indignities, dread, and dreamscapes of what we’re able to call ‘home’.

Tender, fierce, and mordantly funny, Property Journal is a damning indictment of the permanent state of affairs known as the housing crisis.

Author
Amy Ching-Yan Lam

Editor
Hannah Regel

Designer
Eveleigh Rosen

Publishers
Book Works, London
Richmond Art Gallery, BC

Publication Date
2024

Binding
Softcover

Size
216 pages

ISBN
9781912570317