Narrative: Zine

For this project we were to create our own narrative on 8 pages, including a package for the zine to fit in as well as three small sculptures to go along to convey the story behind the zine.

First, we brought in our original artworks that were going to be on the zine. As a class we laid out our original artworks, book mock-up showing pagination and structure/orientation. From there, the next time we would meet we were required to bring 5 printouts for the zine, 3 hand-held sculptures, and the container/structure package and demonstrate how it all goes together.

I chose to create the narrative of my zine about ecological issues within the ocean. I took photographs of the artworks (close-ups, focused/out of focus), used information about the environmental issues to help convey my message to the reader.

Evaluation:

As a class we were given each one a Self-evaluation zine package handout, and another to critique a peer's zine package. The images below depict my self-evaluation zine package about my sculptures, zine and package, the other is of my peer whom I gave feedback to about their artwork, and the other self evaluation is of a fellow classmate who evaluated my zine package. 

I created my zine package out of  recycled plastic water bottles to discuss the issue of pollution. Plastic is a non- biodegradable material that is discarded in the ocean that ends up in one of the 5 gyres (located in five different oceans). This material causes an impact on marine life, leading to death by entanglement, suffocation, and digestion (food). 

My three sculptures depict a mangrove tree (conservation/preservation of the mangrove trees) using chicken wire and grass material, fish entangled in a bottom trawling net wrapped in fishing line and plastic wrap (pollution) using aluminum foil, netting material, fishinglin  and a coccolithophore (carbon absorbing algae/carbon cycle) created with plastilina clay. 

My zine was integrated with the package, illustrates materials using ecological issues within the ocean and the text explains what the effects on the environment are. Each zine edition has different facts about how the material affects the environment, and images (close-ups, focused/out of focus) of the original artwork used to create the zine.  I bounded the zine together using fishing line which is a material that causes many issues with marine life deaths because of entanglement and suffocation due to harmful fish practices and technique's.