creating bc survival

zines + art by margot terc - margot-terc.com

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2nd trimester feels // 6 moths pp and still rising to the surface

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2nd trimester feels // 6 moths pp and still rising to the surface

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you try and I love you for that - shop digital download via site

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would you ever consider selling artwork of some of your art that you don’t have up for sale now? i really love your piece “discomfort is okay” and would love to hang that in my room or something

hello! thank you for asking. it's actually super helpful to hear what folks would want to buy or get! at different points i have made prints of different pieces, but i mostly sell them through zine fests or art events i do in person. so i don't really get to put them on my website. but i'm trying to get better about selling my work online, so will follow up with this. thank you!

edit: I've been updating my website margot-terc.com <3

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A beginners guide to zine-making, that provides an overview of zines, and comes with an illustrated tutorial (accompanied with a one page poster fold) for readers to create their own 4-fold zine.

2021, Risograph printed staple-bound, 20 pages, 8.5”x5.5”

Artist: Margot Terc & Childish Books

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A beginners guide to zine-making, that provides an overview of zines, and comes with an illustrated tutorial (accompanied with a one page poster fold) for readers to create their own 4-fold zine. 2021, Risograph printed staple-bound, 20 pages, 8.5”x5.5” Artist: Margot Terc & Childish Books

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margot, love your work so much bb, hope all is well <3 ok so i have a question, are you planning on putting all of your zines on your shop (digital downloads at least) i really need to read your zines + would love to support you by buying them!

this is so sweet!!! you're a real one, btw!!! thank you for this bb. i need to do a better job with my shop overall, but I actually took some time today to add a new zine.

I gotta do a better job of adding more digital downloads tho. digital downloads are a much easier lift for me, and I have so many zines in pdf form. thank you for this. its affirming and encouraging, and i hope you get this support right back very soon <3

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Project 6/52: Inspired by Flight + Escape Velocity

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Project #5: Print + Poem + Essay (Dismembered No More) — Margot Terc

This print and short poem were created as an assignment for my class on technology &amp; psyche. The task was to flip through our book, Psy

"As I carved and I forgot limbs and thought of “The Red Shoes”, I reflected on pieces of the story. Of feet symbolizing a basic sense of mobility and freedom, and red symbolizing both aliveness and loss of life (Estés 1995). How dismemberment in this tale is a metaphor for the loss of creativity and joy, and the danger women face every day in their life, to remain connected to the lives of their own making. The handmade shoes our protagonist starts with were created by her own ingenuity, and spoke of her inherent creativity and resourcefulness. In this tale the old woman doesn’t represent the crone archetype of wise old woman that lends insight and support, but rather the elder bent on tradition, the one that has assimilated to the collective’s status quo to her own detriment and loss of freedom.

As the old woman of the story assimilates the little girl into a world where she must stand straight, and not skip or fall out of line, she robs her of her inner joy and spark. And what happens when we disconnect from the thing that makes us feel alive? We start to attach to anything that makes us feel anything. As Estes (1995) puts it, “Like all captured creatures, we fall into a sadness that leads to an obsessive yearning, often characterized in my practice as “the restlessness with no name” (p.227). She later adds that it’s important to be discerning of what it is that we’re taking on when it seems easy or trouble-free, “especially if, in exchange, we are asked to surrender our personal creative joy to a cremating fire rather than an enklinding one of our own making” (Estes 1995, p. 227)."

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This one started an assignment for school, and grew into a reflection of "The Red Shoes" (as told by Clarissa Pinkola Estés), dismemberment, creativity, anima/animus, and the intention to craft a life of my own doing.

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Project 4/52: Zine Inspired by Goddess Inanna

"The workshops, the practice of creating these collages, and the zine itself, connected me to the descent/underworld aspect of Inanna’s story. That’s where I am right now. Under the ground, in the dark, a lil seed that hasn’t bloomed yet. It can be terrifying to get on one’s knees and let the pain be. But right now it feels that this is what needs to happen, and this is where I need to be. In my underworld, disarmed, messy, complicated. This feels freeing, since I’ve been running from this place for a long time." x

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Project #3: Nature and Images (for psyche)

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Project 2/52: Experimenting with Collage

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Project #2: Collages — Margot Terc

For my second project, I wanted to experiment with collage. I’ve been inspired by the collage work I’ve seen by fellow students at the Pacif

"The trickiest part of this process has been actually allowing myself to embrace this part. Although I often allow my work to shape itself as it comes together, this intention called forth more unconscious energy, as well as trust, and willingness to create something that might not make sense to me right away. The first collage I made was in response to the prompt given in the workshop: to create a collage of a figure that spoke to us, or represented us in some way. We’d find or assemble a figure, and true to the medium, mix and remix elements in our page. Maria reminded us a few times to not look for any specific images, and to allow the process to guide us. Whatever called to us, that is what we were meant to work with. "

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I tried block printing :))

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Project #1: Block Printing — Margot Terc

I’m obsessed with rubber stamps, and I have a plastic bin filled with ones I’ve collected over the past five years. My favorite ones are: a heart, a fish, a patterned square, a ‘thank you’, and a lil cloud. I go back and forth with the leaves and tiny trees. I use them on zines, notebooks and planne

Ever since I read 52 Projects, by Jeffrey Yamaguchi, I’ve wanted to embark on a creative ritual that I commit to doing weekly and consistently for up to a year (a project per week). I’ve wanted to do this since I read the book around 2006 and its now 2/21, and I’m finally doing it :))

I’m treating this as an experiment and I fully expect that I will tweak things and figure out better ways as I go. Feel free to subscribe and follow along <3

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hello !! i just filled out your creative process survey and while i found a lot of love and meaning in filling it out, i wanted to apologize in case you wanted to direct it specifically towards more, like, intentional and purposeful creatives who produce/distribute their work (semi-)publicly! 🧡

hii! i think a few people have gotten a similar impression, so thank you for bringing it up so that i can clear that up.

the first thing i should say is that this survey is made up of things i myself spend a lot of time thinking about, so that’s the first bias. i am really into process, and now that i’m studying creativity via depth psychology (and vice-versa), some of these things are just what’s coming up for me lately.

there’s an option to submit a piece of work because i want folks to be able to share their art if they do feel like sharing. however, a lot of creators make for themselves and don’t wish to share, or don’t want to at this particular time. and that’s valid and welcomed.

my favorite part about this so far is how different everyone has been in their responses. i’ve found something relatable in every entry, and it makes it more impactful to me the fact that they’re different. because we’re all driven and moved by different things. some people have ways to unblock, some people don’t even consider it a thing. i find that fascinating, and it helps me a lot more that hearing from a bunch of ppl that have the same outlook.

so really, my intention with the survey is for us to see the many ways we navigate our practices. hopefully we’ll feel affirmed in some way, inspired in others, and/or stirred in some way. and i’m hoping that whatever feels very different from our experiences will spark something.

hope that helps!

ps: i absolutely loved your answers, and i’m so glad you submitted!