COP3 Zine

This home made DIY zine for Thought Bubble Festival UK was created using initial images from my Context of Practice sketchbook and then edited digitally using Photoshop. The themes approached in this zine are Human-animal relationships specifically focussing on Human Dominance, the Evolutionary Perspective and the Postmodern Animal.

The zine is printed in black and white but the original images are mixed media, combining collated images, drawn illustrations, writings, painting, and cutting/etchings into the paper.

Overall I am really pleased with this zine as I have only made a ‘book’ once before which was in first year, so this was a good experience to give a quick DIY zine ago. I wasn’t surprised that I didn’t sell many because I didn’t create it for the target audience at thought bubble. This was because I was more focussed on creating a book showcasing my human dominance themes in my sketchbook for my COP3 project… I can’t imagine that many people would like to own a zine like this as its not very comforting or cute or even has much of a story line! As I had to create this quite a few weeks before the deadline as I was abroad, I had to give and take on the content… however next time I create a zine I would love to create one from scratch with a moving story line and characters! But personally this zine really worked for me and I found the whole process of making it and editing my work really beneficial to my practice!

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