Hello everyone,

This is my very first handmade zine project. It's in French, but I'll explain the whole thing to you.

The material: For the photos, I used a small book of photographs and poems (I'd picked up in a throw-away box in town). I rearranged them as I wanted to make sense. For my text, I didn't use the same book but a 10-year-old photography magazine.

My objective: I'd just gone through one heck of a self-examination the day before about how much several processes had altered my self-esteem. So the day before I set about making some profound changes. When I woke up, I wanted to make a zine that would leave a trace of this. I wanted it to be fully creative and an expression of me, turned towards me and not a teaching zine or one that would explain what I'd done the day before.

What helped me: I didn't want to write in my own handwriting, I just wanted to cut and paste and superimpose. So I couldn't write everything I wanted because my words weren't in the magazine or the book. I had to get the message across in a different way.

 

First page: "Intensive care, the path."

 

Second double page: I say that I (the hand) want to beat the traps (represented by the man with his rifle) complex, multiple and triggering several words: noise, reactivity, explosion, drama, flashes, control, unstructured collision (the woman from behind)

 

Third double page: I say there are lows and abysses

 

Fourth double page: I imply that there are also highs (the word in French is made up of five letters in the plural, so I added the S on purpose to make it clear that there will be several highs).

 

Last page: I say the way to go is to hold it tight!

 

None of the photos were associated like that in the little book and I didn't use all the photos but I can't see them again other than in this zine now.

It did me so much good. This zine is me.

 

thank you so much for reading me.

swänn