#no double-sided tape was used in the making of this zine and my life was better for it on cohost

a new month in late 2023, a new zine!

i love being married to @dumplingsquid for like... a lot of reasons, but being able to demand ocean poetry is high on the list. I've seen some really cool scanner art on IG lately and wanted an excuse to scan some of the many, many shells we've acquired in california, so here we all are.

i was originally thinking truly unreasonable thoughts about having the poem on a single strip of paper that you pulled through a slit in a vellum cover in order to read, and then realized that was going to be a nightmare to produce at any sort of volume.

the zine faceup on a wooden table with the gold binding threads visible trailing off the left

I really like the asymmetric cover on this one, and I'm obsessed with the sewn binding!!!!! It was honestly the most fun step, and I will definitely be using thread (and stranger materials?!?!) to bind zines in the future.

if you're not a member of the zine club, you could be!

#no double-sided tape was used in the making of this zine and my life was better for it

when the sea was gone