Yikes, 2024
Digital,Risograph
black ink on craft paper
Threadbound
Ed. 5
For my zine Yikes, I created visuals that reflected my obsessive thoughts on catastrophe—the tension between feeling like the world is ending and questioning if that fear is just a mental distortion. During an overnight shoot for an analog horror film in an abandoned Oxnard power plant, I had free rein to explore and capture the eerie atmosphere, experimenting low exposure and shutter camera settings.By applying grainy textures and layering my writing over the images, I developed a visual language that embodies anxiety, depression, and disorientation—not as a clinical statement, but as an emotional experience.
My supplementary pieces contrast the more feelings-forward zine, with medicalizing mental illness. I chose to list the brand names of anti depressant medications, paralleled with the chemical compounds to create a diptych in the same visual style as the zine.
Photos from the power plant.