Cindy was a visual artist, a friend, daughter and big sister. Creation was her calling. When she wasn’t working in esteemed museums like MoMA or MOCA, she was making videos, photographing, designing, drawing and inspiring friends to follow their creative passions.  Cindy Yeh left us too early leaving many projects unfinished. Among those projects was a zine called “Urban Velocity,” a love letter to the energy of New York created in collaboration with her friends.

She had been folding the first 10 copies of the zine the morning of the accident. The copies were not perfect—the printer created an unattractive big white margin in the middle of the booklet. However, Cindy was proud with this first attempt. She knew that with a couple more tries, the perfect print would have been soon shared among friends and art spaces, spreading her love of creation.

The people who worked on the project, and people who've known Cindy and her talent, would want all want her creations to go on. Through her work, Cindy will always be present with us.

To honor Cindy

we're hoping to create 300 professional prints of her zine, “Urban Velocity.” The copies will be shared with friends, family, strangers, art spaces, zine and book fairs on both the East and West coasts. We're hoping that you might find it in your hearts to contribute any sum you can afford to our fundraiser. Radix Media in Brooklyn, the city’s only worker-owned union print shop, will making our prints for us. The zine will come in a booklet format with saddle stitching binding the 52 pages together. The cover and back pages will be made of #80 cardstock and the interior will be #60 cardstock, both uncoated. The zine itself contains photography, personal essays, stories, drawings and more ways a group of friends have express their love for the speed of a city that never sleeps. Radix will charge us $835.00 for 300 prints. This is a pretty good price but we’ll need help from friends, family, zine fanatics and people that want to preserve Cindy’s legacy. Shipping the copies will then be the second main expense. We’re counting on the financial support from people interested in zines and art books. Even if you can only donate a few dollars that will help our cause.  

We plan to charge a small amount of $4 per zine in festivals and bookstores. With the profits we'll publish more copies of the zine to give away for free and print a second book of the most recent series of photographs Cindy had been working on. She hasn't had time to curate and share her series yet so we want to give her a way to show her creations. These unseen photographs will come as rewards for donations too.

Below is a list of people involved in the zine (by order of appearance):

- Cindy Yeh
- Shabnam Moallem
- Alexandre Cheval
- Francois Huyghe
- Lara McCaffrey
- Anton Haugen
- Jacqueline Fontugne
- Candace Ming
- Marietta Zafirakos
- Berat Chavez

Thank you