LANDLUBBERS (2019)

Landlubbers was a short zine of character collages made as a sort of release during April of 2019. I was feeling particularly claustrophobic and discontent with the slickness of production in most circulated images nowadays -what with social media and the constant filtration of people’s presented lives- and needed to prove that we can still react against that.

Words and images and experiences and characters… we recognise the combination of two or more of these things so well. They’re everywhere, but seem more and more to be associated with achieving perfection. Why does it all have to be so grand? It’s so easy to forget the small, important details of life; from bouts of absurdity to a low level of melancholy.

Though I exhibited the original collages in ‘Newspeak’ at Assembly House, the Landlubbers zines were produced as black and white photocopies in a simple A4 stapled booklet. Resisting the temptation of high production values was so important, as the booklet needed to encapsulate the collages’ mundanity.

The experiences of the characters are temporary; so far from becoming a treasured and beautiful object, the zine is meant to be perishable.