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<\/a>\nthe zine cover is ‘hard-ish’ card stock folded over to make a book cover. the 19 paper & a few thin tissue insert pages are held in place by that slightly ragged, machine sewn binding edge – about 1 inch in from the left hand edge.
\nthe price, $10 at the time – is still visible in faint pencil, on the top right hand corner. <\/p>\n
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\nopen the book – and you can see the zine cover is maybe made from the re-cycled outtakes of a screen print ?
\nyes, she signed it for me: Kelie B.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHairy Days by Kelie Bowman
\nedition 26\/42
\ncinders press
\ninfo@cindersgallery.com
\nwww.cindersgallery.com
\nSeptember 07<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe third page in – is a tissue insert with a hand drawn tree outlining or echoing the following page. it is done in brown marker and looks to be unique to each edition. that is, it is drawn by hand into each separate edition, while the rest of the book \/ zine seems printed, digitally, or silkscreened ? . . . in fine black ink ?
\nthe marker gestures: the hand … of the hand … in the handmade book. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe following page: and we get to the ‘root’ of the matter.
\ntrees\/nature vs. people\/nature
\nmale vs. female
\nyin and yang – the endless circle of life. conflict – at play ? at rest ?
\nbut wait her hair . . . is covering his face – doesn’t that mean something, too ?
\nare we at war ? and don’t even know it ?<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n“MAKE ME”
\nmake me – do me ?
\nmake me – perform ? make me obey ? make me – fight ? make me – confront you.
\nMake My Day ?
\nMake My magic ?<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n“STOP THE WAR”.
\nall zines want to say something. all artists want to say – something.
\nfrom the inside (magic) – going straight . . . out (the world).
\nhairy days . . what was happening in 2007 ? couldn’t be any worse than what’s happening today, SEPT 2012, the world seems to be on fire. set ablaze by the eternal yin yang, 2 halves of global civilization clashing head on – the western civilization vs. the muslim civilization . . . and the web itself is the arrow – YouTube !! being the arrow that shoots through – and sets an electricity, cursing through the global Tower of Babel.
\ntell me, is YouTube – handmade, or what ?
\nfreedom of expression – is a zine. and when it speaks, with power and poetry: that is Brilliance, leave it to the Chinese to be upfront with great words, like that.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nanother hand drawn insert of tissue, and marker.
\nthis zine is kind of contrary. it is very peaceful outwardly, but takes on the BIG issues.
\nit covers a lot of ground for a very small book.
\noh yeah, it is approx 8-1\/2 x 5-1\/2 inches (!!)<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe book is also about: the self.
\nthe organic growing self. the rings of age, experience.
\nthe portals – that allow others – to enter.<\/p>\n