apres-expozine and the year's end

glad to write to you now that expozine’s over. it went insanely well- sold out of most of the zines i brought, a fair amount of shirts, and i’m down to just one or two tarot decks left. yay! now i can have more space in my apartment for lying around and eating chips. if you came and said hey to me, thank you so much! if you didn’t, go to hell! (kidding. do not go to hell.)

one of the main reasons i like tabling expozine, more than the cash money potentially acquired, is the wealth of inspiration one can gather by just hanging out. i’m working on two zines now; one of them’s about xiu xiu and the other one is written in french and is about bilingualism! we will see how long both of them take me to finish as i’ve been deeply distracted lately by like everything else in my life. i’m excited for my upcoming holiday and the two six-hour train rides i’ll be taking; it’s a great opportunity to reset and “recentre” even though the latter is a huge buzzword and i’m sorry.

as far as art goes i’ve been looking into making more prints because i do love linocuts so much. i also want to start painting again in earnest, as i think a lot of the things i learned last year re: colour are starting to make themselves apparent in my paintings more and more. hopefully that continues! i think i want to begin looking at painting people more, because it’s sort of been a long standing weak spot for me. looking at francis bacon paintings for inspiration because he seems to have a similar discomfort with painting the face. going to try to do some self portraits without worry of being narcissistic!

this likely will be the last time i write this year- see you in 2022, unless i get my act together. then i’ll see you later in 2021 i guess.