My improvising friend Sophie was after a way to use her illustrations and micro-fiction in an artist way. I showed her zines. So i pulled out of the endless loop that is perfecting the darn pattern for the tiny / tony houses, and started making zines.
I took the World Book Encyclopedia for the letter B which has been sitting awaiting alteration, and I made some things.
The beauty of it is that the illustrations and information is all there, all I need do is fold up some zines to put it in.
I ended up with two sizes of zines. I used the innards of Relation, which I altered a few months ago. I had detached pages as singles and as double pages, which gave me two sizes of zines. I prefer the larger format because I can get more on a single page. And because the pages are almost square (and I love a square). But the smaller ones are also more or less playing card-sized, which is pleasing to hold.
I’ll film the lot of them when I get a pause time with good light, but for now, here’s just one. It’s different to most of the ezines, in that I covered the whole page, and i didn’t use a page from Relation – there were so many too-big images of balloons, and the ballerinas just went in with it. I glued them all on a piece of advertising from a Bunnings magazine. I have since folded this like a zine and you’ll see it in one of the videos soon.
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One of the features of this series is the juxtaposition of different things (here, balloon and ballet, later baseball and bats of the fleshy kind). Obviously I continued some of the images past the boundaries of what was in the encyclopedia (as I do) to create a “single” image.
So far this is fun, and fun is what it’s about!