1. Briefly describe your project.
I want to make a zine, one small book a month, with autobiographical/ personal narrative work and other things like how-tos and recipes. It would be mostly illustrations with some multimedia like collage and embroidered work.
2. What is your starting point/source material? (What are you thinking about? What are you interested in? What sparked your interest?)
It’s sort of like a snapshot of the last couple of months of my time at Northside. I’ve been keeping a journal and I like the idea of having a journal that is somewhat public? Putting yourself out there hoping someone else will relate and maybe they’ll feel better too.
3. What painting or drawing style is best suited for your project? Why?
I think that I’ll be using a variety of painting and drawing styles, mostly just what comes naturally to me because a lot of it will be catharsis but also experimenting with different styles and techniques for fun because the thing tying everything together is that it’s about me.
4. What mood are you trying to create in your artwork? How will you create it (what color, material, technique, and compositional choices will reflect this mood?)
I want to reflect how I’m feeling at the time that I make it! I’ve been feeling very cool colours, very cool pink and purple and deep blue. Teenage years are kind of dark but vivid, or they’re faded and pale like memories and I want to reflect that in colour choice.
5. How could your project be more of a question than an answer? Or how is your current idea more of a question than an answer?
Because it’s sort of a personal project nothing is spelled out exactly… As in I am not willing to discuss specific problems or ordeals that my friends or I have gone through, even if it’s pertinent because having privacy is powerful. But cathartic artwork can hint at problems, and I think it’s more interesting that way anyway.
6. How could your project be more subtle? Or what project would just barely change or reinterpret your starting point?
Originally I was going to do a bunch of autobiographical comics about la Brewer vie quotidian but then I decided that although that might be fun for me no one really cares… So I changed my project to be more varied and subtle in terms of its autobiographical elements.
7. Pick two of the following to explore-- How could your project be: sillier, more critical, more celebratory, more serious, more mysterious, more boring, more fun, less fun, or more abstract?
More critical: I wanted to steer clear of any political affiliation in this zine just because I wanted it to be fun, but because a lot of my work is probably going to be about women I could incorporate a feminist angle to some of it.
More mysterious: I tend to rely on text pretty heavily in my work to convey meaning when it involved personal narrative, so I could try to avoid use of text or cut out use of text entirely to make things more open to interpretation.
I aim to create one book per month remaining of the school year, compiling the pages on the first of the month proceeding so:
march 1: COMPILE ALL PAGES FOR FEBRUARY BOOK
march 9: print test zine for february pages
march 30: COMPILE ALL PAGES FOR MARCH BOOK
april 1: print zines for march... it's ok if they're a different style or material than february
april 27th: COMPILE ALL PAGES FOR APRIL BOOK
may 1: print zines for april
may 15: COMPILE ALL PAGES FOR MAY BOOK
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