12.04.22

The actions we must take to slow a pandemic can become concentrated anxiety, gripping the collective guts a little tighter every day. A tangled knot; embodied uncertainty, and a portal; a looking glass; the possible futures that exist on the other side. Tubes lead into the feeling of time, expanding to step through a portal, and stretching over a threshold very slowly and very carefully.

Passage and Portal is a mixture of collage, drawing and painting melded together with the risograph medium. A glimpse into the perspective of Sunny Nestler who lives with an immune disease that affects their digestive system, throttling their upper cerebral-brain and lower gut-brain into overdrive. 

Edition of 150
60 pages, Spiral Bound, 4c
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2022

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11.10.21

freshwater | salt is a meditative exploration of water and its relation to Rosemary’s mental health recovery. Living with a lifelong mental illness like bipolar can at times feel incapacitating in a way difficult to tangibly describe, and can make it painfully difficult to understand identity as a unified whole. How do you show someone what depressive episodes spanning 10 years looks like, with full shapes? And then how do you convince people to care?

Poetry — Rosemary Xinhe Hu
Illustration — Madeline Metras

Edition of 200
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2021

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10.21.21

Act Natural is a collection of digital and film photography that observes moments of human-made imprints and materials masquerading among natural elements. Printed in 4-colour risograph, the book includes interspersed carbon paper sheets. These sheets invite the reader to interact, doodle, sketch, trace, or write, leaving a new impression on the pages beneath.

Photography and design by Hayley Burns
Edition of 100
Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC — 2021

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05.15.21

Are We There Yet? is inspired by the incredible community resistance work amidst a summer of racial reckoning. A summer spent dreaming of freedom, Black liberation and joy– vibrantly reflected with sumi ink, watercolour, and family photos. Are We There Yet? encapsulates a journey that is deeply personal and hopeful.

Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Paintings — Bethlehem Mariam
Book Design — Erica Wilk
Vancouver, BC – 2021

Bethlehem Mariam is an artist and journalist based in Vancouver, B.C. She received her B.A from Concordia University. Her practice spans painting, drawing, collage and zine-making. She works primarily with watercolors, ink and acrylic paint.  She also produces various comedy shows including “Blackity Black Show.”  You can find her here.

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02.04.21

fruit/soil by Kimberly Edgar

fruit/soil observes the evolution of a pandemic– the hyper awareness of the precarious balance between relative safety and the fragility of living in a remote northern community. Whose bodies do we risk when we open up? We feel safe due to our distance, but does that isolation also make us vulnerable?

fruit/soil is an experiment by Kimberly Edgar that exists somewhere between; zine and art object, one-off drawings/comics and other sequential narratives.

Edition of 150
ISBN 978-1-989428-03-0
Riso printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC / Dawson City, YT, 2021

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04.03.21

Quilt of Hope Exhibition Tour
January 23—March 1, 2021
at Massy Books (229 E Georgia St)

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More info about the project here.