Bycatch and Wildlife is a collection of the author Lin Jing-Feng’s own thoughts and musings penned during his time as a distracted undergraduate student of theatrical costume design. His extracurricular explorations of forested mountains and harbor wet markets, his predilection for making taxidermy specimens alongside his stage models, and his out-of-the-box ingenuity (such as building an illicit “kitchen” in his dorm room from scrap items scavenged from a metal recycler) naturally sets him apart from his peers. In this work, Lin welcomes you into his world to help you discover the unexpected in the everyday. Bycatch and Wildlife shows how the “happy-go-lucky” college experience can also open the door onto things surprisingly new and unexpected.