theres nothing quite like the taste of your own tail.

zines. (pronounced like the last syllable of “magazine”)

A zine is any self published work that is typically bound in some format. It can take the form of a single sheet of paper folded up, or it can be multiple pages stapled/bound together.

My zine, “There’s Nothing Quite Like the Taste of Your Own Tail,” was inspired by a friend asking to color in one of my prints and realizing that my work really lends itself to a coloring book format. I worked on making the art in the zine for about two weeks. Most of the drawing was done on airplanes as I traveled from Boston to Colorado and back (spring break), and Boston to Germany and back (research project). I printed out the zines in the MIT Media Lab using this very fancy printer, called a Riso printer. It is essentially like screen printing in printer format (read more about that here). And I handed out around 100 copies to friends/strangers/lovers around campus, as well as sending copies to those who requested.

Most notably, my zine was featured in the MIT Daily, a daily newsletter MIT sends out highlighting recent happenings of MIT.