Samika Prupas is a designer and artist based in
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada, primarily working across publication design, photography, and documentary videos. She moves between the digital and the analog, drawn to anything that lets her tell a story, make images, or work with her hands. Her practice often wanders through time, memories, archives, and dreamscapes, with a particular fascination for the fleeting qualities in everyday life.
She is in search of freelance work for publication/ephemera design or photography!
sprupas@gmail.com
@samikaprupas
Between Our Ghost Kingdoms
BOOK -
December 2025
176 pages, 7 x 9 in, handbound
One of one handbound copy
Printed at Concordia’s VC Lab
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC
Commercially printed copies coming soon
Publisher: 51 Personae
Shanghai, China
Between Our Ghost Kingdoms was created out of a desire to understand what connects us, the transnational adoptees from China’s one-child policy, and what continues to shape the spaces between us. I have explored my own experiences with transnational and transracial adoption, and what grows around it, through various art and design projects. It felt cathartic but it also felt like I was running circles around myself, revisiting the same questions over and over again. I sought to connect with other adoptees, exchange insights and learn about how their adoptions influenced everything that came after.
For so long, the stories told about our adoptions have belonged to others, mostly adoptive parents, psychologists and people within the adoption system that spoke on our behalf. Now that the majority of us are adults and are able to express our own lived experiences, I felt compelled to create a space where our voices could gather in a collaborative adoptee driven publication.
Through this project, I hope to offer a place of recognition, for adoptees to see themselves reflected, and for others to better understand the layered realities of transnational and transracial adoption. The voices gathered here speak as both a collection of singular stories and as a singular collective experience.