I guess I’m posting journal pages, somewhat regularly now? I think I have a silly little name for this thing also - I think I’m going to tag it ‘grenade journaling’ from now on, as a goofy riff on bullet journaling. Or maybe as an opposite to bullet journaling, I like the idea of journaling to confuse myself, journaling to complicate my thoughts, journaling to forget.
Page 1 - the figure drawing inspiration is directly lifted from Miranda Tacchia’s work, I went to QueerStories hosted by Claire Christian at the GoMA and it made me think of her work. It was a great night, Zen Frost, in particular was wonderful! Emil Canita’s piece was also delightful. Actually everyone who performed and presented was a GEM! Raelee Lancaster, Michael James, Tigah Macey and Bizzi Lavellle all killed it.
Page 2 - This was just, a busy, but regular work day. I suppose it quite neatly shows that this style of journaling is a direct descendant of the way I would draw pages in Impeachable. I have been thinking about how zines are good because you’re always kind of having to reprint them for different events, and how that can be kind of annoying, but actually it gives you this opportunity to always be re-producing them (like a play) or re-issuing them (like an old and famous book). And that this bug, is also a feature, and it allows for you to be in conversation with yourself and previous versions of your work. Which is defintiely not a new idea, there’s like a whole branch of academic practice built on this idea - transformative learning - but it’s very cool that zines/diy have that kind of hermeneutic element built in, or at the least very accessible. Where as big budget art -particularly in the era of “””cancel culture”””- seems to be plagued by how it is frozen in time by having a single release or version. Neither is better or worse for it, it’s just different and offers different things, but I like that it’s another thing about zine making that lowers the barrier for entry-- If you’re worried about the spectre of perfectionism or if you hate what you wrote in a zine a while ago, change it in the next reprint, do whatever you like.