Project 04 | Complete
When I announced this project, 3 people (not including the person who proposed the idea) wrote to tell me how excited they were. A month later, people were probably cursing me as x-acto blades scarred finger tips while folks worked late into the night. Even so, you folks really did some great work, not that I am surprised... but I always appreciate it.
If you send a link to a digital version of your zine, I'll post it with your project below.
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CC | Mail
We got the NY Philharmonic 2026-2027 concert calendar in the mail at the beginning of the month and I was so taken aback (in a good way mostly) by their complete re-brand with the new color palette that I was determined to use it somehow in the zine project this month. So I started saving any interesting looking mail we got over the month and in the end collected enough to repurpose them into small brand color palette studies.
I hand punched 1/2" circles from different parts of each mailer, made art compositions out of each one, added a title with exact verbiage of each of their mail's main messages, and then scanned each piece and printed and assembled the pages in a kind of figure-it-out-as-you-go blind binding set up. I thought about binding the original pieces together but wanted to give a nod to the reproduction aspect of traditional zines (and I liked the analog look of the scanned pages).
CF | Code
CF | Garden
My zine My Vampire Garden is kind of a picture of my inner world this spring using pics of the spring in my area. A mix of sorrow, joy, hope, and play, with some things and places I love woven in — everything living together in its own way.
GF | Tillie
JC | Mixtape
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind. - Duke Ellington
JH | Cruise
KC | Worms
PD | Neighbors
V | Luck
This has been a crazy month and I’m in the throes of moving, and almost accepting the fate that I wouldn’t make this challenge.
But lying in bed, right before sleep on the night of an extension (how lucky)
This poem came to me and I built it from paper found in my car.
I always find multiple four leaf clovers when I visit my parents in Illinois
It’s so peaceful and meditative to search for them 🍀
Luck
Whenever I feel my luck's run out
I run home to fill my coffers
All it takes is
Shoes kicked off
Afternoon sun on my nape
Kneeling head bowed down as if in prayer
And, in truth, I am
Before long
Four leaves look up at me
It's no small thing this solemn moment
For me to gain fortune
A life is Plucked.
