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Assemble Workshop - Zine Publication

Today I started the zine workshop, we got a tour of the publication station and learned about the sustainability behind the risograph.

We then were tasked woth actually making our zine so that it can go through the risograph tomorrow.

Nancy Goldin (b. 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her art investigates in snapshot-style the individual's feelings in personal relationships. She captures people in candid moments.

She repeatedly edited and re-edited her slideshows, and as she continued to show versions in pubs, nightclubs, and art venues, her audience expanded. Goldin, at the age of 33, has created an artistic masterpiece that reveals not just her generation's attitudes, but also the times in which we live. The Ballad was created as a "visual diary" to share with the world Larry Clark's autobiographical 1971 picture book, Tulsa, which Goldin credited as inspiration.

Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a slideshow that at any given time comprises of around 700 candid colour images of herself and her peers.

Goldin is well renowned for her personal depictions of the transgender subculture, as well as her photos of friends dying from AIDS.

Her developing technique adds even more depth and brightness to her images. Goldin produces her prints from slides rather than negatives via a photographic technique known as Cibachrome.

I really enjoy Nan Goldins work it helped inspire me with my project her way of depicting candid and vulnerable moments between friends which I’m trying to achieve during my project.

http://www.moma.org

For this week I choose to do the cyanotype workshop which I enjoyed quite a lot. The process of preparing the sheets and printing were quite interesting.

I started my journey into zine-making by planning my zine pages out. The inspiration for the piece was based off of old furniture catalogues and instruction manuals for furniture building. As to keep with the theme of the piece i decided then to create the piece in isometric perspective, while keeping the front and back pages to a more eyecatching graphic style. I also was basing the furniture off of my own personal taste and as so named the zine ‘Adakea’ as a portmanteau of my own name and the furniture brand. Also based on my self all of the writing in the piece is based on my own sense of humour and quips about my own taste and habits.

I started by designing my zine in a light yellow as to not be picked up by the Riso machine, and then going over it in a darker pencil colour. To create the orange accents on the final piece i used a paint marker to create graphic blocks of colour that would pop in the final piece. If i were to go back and do this project again i would use a darker colour as i am not fully satisfied with the opacity of the orange accents on the final booklets.

When put into the RISO machine The piece gave me a few test prints before the machine had fully reached the opacity it would start its finished prints at.

This Monday I have continued on the textile workshop from the last week, as I did not finish my works.

Christ its week 8 already

This week I did the print making workshop. On Monday, the day I write this, we did mono printing, with acetate sheets covered in oil based ink. First we covered the sheets with paper, and traced out our print on top before removing the paper. Then we did the reverse: removing ink off the sheet, then running that and a piece of cartridge through the press. We also explored colour and texture with wall paper

tuesday:

I used the photography studio to photograph my barrier piece as I knew it would cast interesting shadows.

Playing around with different lighting setups and colours to take lots of pictures. Finally selecting these few: