For this semester, I'm working with Abhishek and Nandhini on a zine which we've entitled Onism.
Initially, we were planning on writing lengthy articles and compiling all of our work into a single magazine, but we've since decided to incorporate many visual aspects as well: photo essays, polaroids, comics, paintings, collages, playlists--nothing is exempt from consideration for us. While all of the work we've accumulated is thriving, we need to focus on refining everything soon: scanning all of our artwork, editing our articles, and compiling everything into something solid.
After talking with Doug Wainwright, a student who has been making his own zines for a while, we were really motivated to get to work. My favorite thing about this project is that it's such a concrete and finite medium, but we have total freedom with it.
Obstacles we've experienced within these past few weeks have been communication (see: Nandhini and Abhishek do not work well together) and focusing on our work. We've managed to surpass this by working independently at times but also keeping each other updated on our work. Future obstacles may include getting our zine printed and selling it//distributing it, although there seems to be a great online presence of zine-creators that I'd like to get into.
Overall, our project is making lots of progress and I'm excited to work on it tomorrow.
