Forty-Five: Zine One (03-30-2023)
Proudly announcing the availability of a beautifully black-and-white 32-page zine featuring originally imagery and commentary- †.
Any interested BUYERS should contact @swmrq4 on twitter and discuss payment (venmo) and shipping addresses. It's unlikely that any will be sold, but the price will be hardly enough to cover shipping and labor. Thankfully materials were free, as they were appropriated from my university.
This page serves as both advertisement and evidence for a certain art museum of my status as an artist for purposes of discounted membership. The museum's provided list of accepted mediums does not include the written word as an acceptable form of art for discounted membership, presumably to exclude wannabe David Foster Wallaces from infiltrating its hallowed halls. However- I am not a writer, satirist, or wannabe. I'm a twitter user who has a website and made a zine and is graduating from college and is losing his qualification for the student membership. My words are not to be taken exclusively for their literary value, but their organization on the page, their individual form, the collective image of each word, the dancing characters on the page-screen. I am not, also, a poet, a term that has been universally adopted by predatory sex fiends and self-righteous, blatantly talentless narcissists too lazy to engage in longer forms of writing.
Style guides are a menacing force in the life of students, a strict set of rules other to the default formatting of Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, or increasingly, Google Docs. There's no easy way organize a paper to the standards of the Chicago Manual, no single button or processor for citations, leaving students to either disregard assignment requirements or become familiar with every formatting option in their processor of choice. These style guides are developed to, for an individual profession or field, make identifying sources of information as seamless as possible. Relevant data points are presented prominently. The visual construction of the page, as an object viewed formally and not literally (literally), is not considered. However- I have chosen to appreciate the formal shape of the academic paper within its natural state, formatted in no innovative manner, not considered, and therefore hilariously standard and hapless.
That is why each page on this damned site is shaped as such, its font such, and this is why I am an artist, deserving of discount at semi-prestigious art museums. This site is also available to the public and I also am selling zines.
