Rainy-day fun: Finish turning an old essay from an equally old anthology into a zine, email the PDF to a local copy shop always lively and crowded with fellow Jews (albeit unlike me, Hasidic ones), get the chatty person behind the counter to print out one copy on bright paper, commiserate with them after they accidentally stab their own finger with one of the two staples they were kindly adding to the zine’s spine, walk outside during a break in the weather yet with ominous clouds hovering above (doesn’t every day feel ominous of late, even if sunny?), and then with zine and phone camera in hand, wander around before the raindrops start again looking for imaginative spots to take photos of said zine, and then share a sampling of them here, noticing how the same exact zine looks slightly different shades of lime-ish green in different settings.
Which gets at some of what this new (one) zine of mine, “Reappropriate the Imagination!” gets at, even if in a dated way. The #ArtOfResistance is about seeing the world at cross-purposes, as social critics, and letting our flights of fancy take us to otherworldly places, as social visionaries—albeit in my case today, in the most modest of ways via a little zine that let me break free for an hour from the dreariness of these times.
And who knows? Maybe my art—writing—bound up in these 24 pages designed by me (with striking cover art by @synecdocheberlin), will get you thinking at cross-purposes about your own anarchist(ic) art practices and point you in visionary directions. For as fascism redraws everything in its own false and cruel image, rebellious art in the most expansive sense has an enormous role to play in pushing open windows to let in the light of truth and humanness, among so many others things that can crack the edifice that fascism stands on, reminding people of life-giving possibilities and their own creative agency to transform the social conditions.
Night and rain are falling in equal measure now, and I have unfun tasks to do. But there’s one more fun thing here: share the readable and print-ready versions (generously made into PDFs by @_hey_casandra_ from my layout).
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