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Seven Creatures, seven pages of eclectic collaboration... For this edition we gave up editorial reigns to seven lucky golden ticket winners. Use the menu on the left to navigate between pages, use the scroller (bottom left) to go left and right, when you reach the end there's a little button that brings you back automatically, you'll need it! 1. PEEP - Gallery & Zine by Bob Milner - Various contributors Cover art work by Julie Vermeille julievermeille@hotmail.com Website: http://julievermeille.free.fr This Edition is dedicated to Jenny McCusker. Scroll on >> |
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DIY Art by Steve White DIY art is much like DIY on the home. It just depends whether you like your shelf slightly wonky with a few screws sticking out or if you want a perfectly finished product just the same as your neighbour’s shelves. It’s all about finish. Why is there a kind of misconception that things should be seamless with no hints to how the product was made? Why is it seen as a good thing to be in a way deceived by the process of making the product? If I make a cabinet out of nice old wood, then I want to see that it is made out of nice mahogany, not have it painted over by varnish or gloss paint so that it matches the curtains. An item is nice in its own right, especially in terms of art, not because it matches everything else you have. If anything the fact that it stands out as different makes it better and more poignant as a piece of work by an individual, and not something made by a machine and bought from IKEA. It is made by a real human being who thinks and makes creative decisions which affect the aesthetics of the art work which obviously makes it completely unique. Why would anyone want something which everyone else has?
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DIY art is often made on a budget through necessity. This, I feel, is nothing to be ashamed of, far from it. So why would you deny this by trying to put a completely high class finish on something which is produced on a starving budget? The domestic printer with ink off the market is the best machine to be utilised. I want to see work made by anyone and everyone with the means they have to communicate their thoughts and ideas, not have highly finished work empty of real content and realism, but printed on nice Somerset paper and in a nice frame. That’s the thing about DIY art; it is for all, by all. Everyone has a voice and thoughts and ideas which need communicating. The best way to do this is the most immediate and easiest to reproduce way. Therefore photocopiers, domestic printers and stencils are tools for the cheapest and most immediate way of communicating to as many people as possible. It is a state of urgency; publish or perish. I know that that is already a coined phrase and a zine fair in London but I came up with it first. Maybe not, fine. What about: ‘Draw or shut up’. Or maybe: ‘Photocopy or spend lots of money printing professionally’. Catchy or not as these slogans might be, it matters not about all-inclusive phrases or movements which inevitably join the long list of cliques and certain accepted ways of doing things in different groups of people. What matters in DIY is that everything is done by you, and so communicates your own individual goals, ideas, and thoughts and should be distributed to as many or as little people as specified by the application. |
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