Hi! Welcome to Time Spirals, where we are just cycling through time, my friends. I appreciate you being here with me! So, I've been meaning to make a blog or newsletter or whatever for the past decade. But If you know me IRL you know that I move at my own pace, I've been out here living...ok? I'm still living, maybe even more so but I now feel like I have enough space (perspective?) to catch you up on the past, ground into the present, and bring you with me into the future... TIME SPIRALS is a “process blog” where I reflect on my art practice as a way to keep building and cultivating space for creativity in my life. To get this spiral started, I’ll delve into the behind the scenes of my previously published zines, books, completed projects and collaborations from the past ~10 years, while also inviting you into my current process and practice. |
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The weeks will flow in a familiar pattern: |
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| | 1. New Moon We start every month with the new moon, where we’ll excavate buried seeds from the past by delving into some ZINE LORE. I feel like it's only right to start this baby off by reintroducing you to my work with behind the scenes info about my process, and questions/problems I worked through in my completed works and projects. We’ll look at how I made it, what I did, who was there, and original/ raw sketches from pre-production. For the book making, design and riso heads, I think you might enjoy this part. | | |
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| | 2. Waxing Crescent …we’re embodying the sprout. It’s that awkward growth phase that can actually be beautiful if you just let it be! I’ll be sharing unreleased sketches, drawings and comics for the infinite scroll as they come into form. | | |
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| | 3. Full Moon In the spirit of radiance and abundance of the full moon, I’m living in the present. Here I'll share more about what I’m learning, studying, exploring right now that's informing my current art practice. This is where things get more… esoteric. I have a many year's long yoga, breathwork, and somatic practice, and I'm a student of the moon, tarot, and astrology. I’m just saying, the light in me recognizes and honors the light in you, ok? | | |
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| | 4. Waning Moon The Dark Goddess. The Crone. I've always had real undertaker, Lilith energy, so this chaotic destruction phase is where I thrive in life. For the newsletter, the week of the Waning Moon will release a TLDR roundup of the month’s <||> reflections <||> and >> refractions << along with any new links, lists, press, and updates from the shop at DAHOLOGRAM.com | | |
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RINSE & REPEAT While I'm here in this intro talking about my practice, I would like to take this moment to thank the teachers who have been integral to its formation and cultivation, and by extension the birth of this newsletter. These artists offer intuitive tools and frameworks (AKA rituals) for (self)transformation and (self)creation, while still affirming the truth that we are all our own most knowledgeable and skillful teachers. I am grateful to Luna, Soft Web, and Valley for sharing their process. Please follow and support their work! As the moon returns to darkness, we’ll let that spiral go and begin the next month’s cycle anew with another seed from the past. It's wild because, as much as I be losing time, I'm very good at keeping it (IYKYK). I'm excited to share this with you– my work, my process, and my practice. This is for the other freaks, healers, makers, seekers, and dreamers. I hope this inspires you to keep creating and flowing through cycles of time at your own pace. Thank you! Xo Paige AKA da hologram AKA Paquita Maria Fulana AKA ... |
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THIS IS THE LORE YOU SEEK |
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THINGS’LL NEVER BE THE SAME |
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Things'll Never Be the Same Covers: Riso Reprint (Left) and Original Laser Print (Right) |
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Starting off with my first printed project of this year--- a reprint of "Things'll Never Be the Same" a zine by my friend and dare I say Richmond legend, Spazzy ( to be a Richmond legend all u gotta do is live there and survive). Spazzy debuted this zine at Richmond Zine Fest last fall, and I fell in love. It's 6 page book with wild ass drawings and a real VA lotto ticket inside. The purple blue inky parts throughout the original are transferred on with tattoo stencil sheets. With all I’d been learning at the Risolab since the residency last summer, I decided to ahem... try my luck... ahem and attempt to print a riso-remake. Spazzy said I could do whatever I wanted, so I hit up Brian who printed the originals and he sent me the files. Then I had to separate the files into separate colors for riso printing…. HMMMM . Y'all I did that, and after test prints, experimenting with fluorescent pink and florescent orange and blue, I decided to go with pure violet instead of mixing to create the color of the tattoo stencil. With violet, I used black, spot color red, and Orange. I wanted to make the reprint as close to the original as possible and maintain the integrity of the drawings, which can feel like a fools errand with riso and its "limitations". I made A LOT of mistakes and learned a lot too. What makes this different from the original besides some coloring and formatting differences, is that this version has my losing ticket from my copy scanned into perpetuity (someone else won like $ 20 bucks from their copy at zinefest!), and now there’s a new spread on the back pages--- a mash of Spazzy’s dot drawings with my own sketches printed on top (reveal next week). This was really fun to make. Thanks, Spazzy for letting me play with your creation! [BTW, #RVA--- Richmond Zine Fest is giving micro grants to artists for this year's zine fest. Applications are open til March 15.] |
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Things'll Never Be the Same Back Covers: Riso Reprint (Left) and Original Laser Print (Right) |
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You can get a riso version of this zine from Spazzy directly! If you are reading this there's like a 8% chance you know how to find him. Also, If you wanna contact him, his numbers in the zine... Also, another friend of his will be selling them at a fair in VA. I will put these in the shop eventually and when they're there, I'll tell you all about it.This is a bit of a cliff hanger, more later. Like next week! Stay Tuned --- Until then--- |
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NYC SEE ME HERE:
I’ll be at MOCCA Arts Fest this Saturday March 16 giving an artist talk and risograph demonstration with the Risolab from 2:30-4 PM. I believe it costs money to go to MOCCA just fyi, but I wouldn't know because--- here's a little extra LORE for the week, since that's what I promised--- last year, the day after I drove a uhaul to this haunted brownstone barbie dream apartment where I currently reside, I went to MOCCA for the first time with my friend [REDACTED] who snuck me in with a press pass. The day after MOCCA I still had no utilities so I went to a cafe where I met a former Risolab Artist In Residence [REDACTED] who was complaining about the chaotic nature of riso demos MOCCA, but also told me I should apply to the residency. And so I did, and now we're here. It's giving a little NYC full-circle moment, which damn it, feels like a W since it's 1 year later and IT'S TIME FOR ME TO LEAVE MY HAUNTED MANSION. I think there's a metaphor here somewhere but I'm not really... interested in exploring it. If I hear one more Little Edie comparison... |
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