The press operates in the margins—producing work that is intentionally scaled, repeatable, and meant to move. Publications are not positioned as fixed objects, but as forms that can be held, passed, dispersed, and returned to. Paper functions as both medium and method: a site of preservation and release, where meaning is carried rather than contained.

Working across zines, print runs, and ephemera, Unsettled Paper Co. centers process over permanence. Editions are often limited, iterative, and responsive, allowing the work to shift over time rather than resolve into a singular form.

Founded by Kāme’o Kahawai, the press exists in close relation to their studio practice, extending similar questions around memory, circulation, and the body as archive into a publishing context. While distinct, the two practices move alongside one another—each informing how work is made, distributed, and encountered.

Unsettled Paper Co. is rooted in the belief that small forms can carry weight—that what exists at the edge, in fragments, or in repetition, can hold and transmit what might otherwise be lost.