Material #0

Initial inspiration

In 2023 I set off on a mission to learn how to print my own staple bound zine. It started with a rediscovery of the computer art I made in the mid 2010s, which focused on breaking photoshop to create generative art on my community college's low powered Dell Inspirons.

A zine materializes

Digital degredation

Material as a whole was very much defined by a time of degredation of the outside world around me. The COVID pandemic caused economic crisis across the city, and when everything shut down, not everything opened back up again. We saw institutions, historic bars and restaurants, and local owned grocery stores close around us. People became more isolated as the space outside their houses started to look like a barren uneasy landscape.