(Tending) (to) (Ta) is a mind-bending work of speculative fiction that follows an
exchange of letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel
dimensions. Each communicating to an other who exists as a possibility beyond their
self-perceived boundaries of reality, the two beings meet in a shared world of imagination.
In the figure of the eponymous protagonist, April Lin 林森 meshes the concepts of ‘ta’,
the monosyllabic sound that in Mandarin Chinese encompasses all third person pronouns,
with the proper noun Ta, creating an infinite cosmic entity who exists across universes
and is present in all beings and matter.
Toronto Queer Film Festival. “April Lin,” n.d. https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/archive/tqff-year-2022/festival-2022/feature1/.