✨Zine Research ✨

My previous zine/mag is available here.

1 – YOKO ONO: Wish Tree

This mightt be a stretch to call a Zine but if by definition it is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images then this kind of works? I just think the interactive aspect of this piece is super sick and could be included in a more traditional zine like format. I was lucky enough to see the Wish Tree IRL in Washington DC on a weekend trip.

Yoko Ono’s interactive artwork WISH TREE (1996) is a piece where people have been invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a tree branch.

From the artist as to why they made it, ““As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.”

Materials RE printing would be handwritten ink (using the audience as the printer), small cardstock & twine.

2 – ROSKI MAG

After making what I thought were just photo/design heavy “magazines” in Australia for many years, ROSKI was my first introduction into the Zine world, in which I learnt I had been making Zines for all those years. It’s a USC student run community in which Zine is published per semester. It might not be anything that “different” from your everyday Zine and their might be students doing this all over the world but this publication is just really special to me <3 It’s defintely very community focused IE not just about the publication itself. It’s printed on a commercial printer.

Magazine 12 – Art by Remi Frogo

3 – PETRA COLLINS: FAIRY TALES

Please allow me to break the formality of this post while I talk about this Zine because it is my BIGGEST source of inspiration (I make a lot of different things [but from my photography to music videos to publishing the inspo from this book has remained consistent). It’s so cool I just want to live in the world they’ve created.

Fairy Tales is an erotic folklore of short photo stories shot by Petra Collins featuring Alexa Demie. The pair created the concept and text collaboratively. Alexa portrays nine characters that embody new stories they would have liked to see. As children, Petra and Alexa were both enamored with fairy tales, which provided an escape from their own painful realities. The aesthtic is goth meets fairy meets alternative mermaid meets beauty. The design itself is quite simple putting an emphasis on the photographic work with minimal design elements that only reinforce the narrative. Printed commerically on a mass scale at Rizzoli.