RESEARCH FESTIVAL PLANS
The Research Festival is a chance to share the work developed during Unit 3 in a public way. It’s less about presenting a final outcome and more about opening up conversation ~ inviting others into the process, ideas, and questions behind the work. It’s an opportunity for: conversation and exchange /collaboration /creative research /critical reflection.
12–16 November
MOCK UP ZINE COVER
MAKING A PUBLICATION
For the Research Festival, I am planning to make a small handmade zine that continues some of the ideas from Set in Stone. I want the zine to feel physical and personal, something that invites the reader to handle it slowly. Rather than a clean, polished publication, it will feel a bit raw and tactile, more like something built out of fragments. I want it to be engaged and interacted with, something that sparks ideas.
ideas for contents of the zine:
︎ collage experiments
︎ overlapping scrapbook-like pages
︎ stills from the projection
︎ short handwritten reflections or notes
︎ film photographs from the ceramic works
︎ pull-out or fold-out pages
︎ textured surfaces (tracing paper, felt, tissue)
︎ a small envelope containing a mini collage kit
︎ simple hand-written “how-to” notes linked to clay and collage
︎ ceramic cradle to hold the zine while displayed
For the Research Festival, I want to create a small hand-made zine as an extension of Set in Stone. It will bring together fragments of photographs, collage and stills from the ceramic projection, arranged in a way that encourages the viewer to move slowly and pay attention to small details. Instead of a linear narrative, the zine works more like a shifting memory, where pages reveal, pause, blur and return.
I also want the zine to be interactive and something that can be learned from. Some pages will include physical pull-outs or pop-up elements, and others will use textured materials such as tracing paper or felt to bring in a sense of touch. Inside the zine there will be a small envelope containing a tiny collage-making kit, inviting the viewer to piece together their own fragment or moment.
I am also planning to include a couple of short how-to style notes that link to my ceramic and collage processes. These are not instructions in a strict sense, but gentle guides that suggest working slowly, noticing material qualities, and allowing the process to shape the outcome.
The zine will be displayed in a small ceramic cradle that I will hand-build. The cradle is intended to create a sense of pause, as if the work is being held with care. It connects the printed pages back to touch, weight and the physical nature of the making process.
I also want the zine to be interactive and something that can be learned from. Some pages will include physical pull-outs or pop-up elements, and others will use textured materials such as tracing paper or felt to bring in a sense of touch. Inside the zine there will be a small envelope containing a tiny collage-making kit, inviting the viewer to piece together their own fragment or moment.
I am also planning to include a couple of short how-to style notes that link to my ceramic and collage processes. These are not instructions in a strict sense, but gentle guides that suggest working slowly, noticing material qualities, and allowing the process to shape the outcome.
The zine will be displayed in a small ceramic cradle that I will hand-build. The cradle is intended to create a sense of pause, as if the work is being held with care. It connects the printed pages back to touch, weight and the physical nature of the making process.
The aim is for the zine to feel personal, slow and tactile, like something that invites someone to spend time with it, rather than simply look at it.
Page example
Draft internal spread for zine (work in progress). Playing with layered fragments and gentle overlapping textures.The circle could play as a window into the work, showing stills from the short film I made ---->
CERAMIC ZINE HOLDERS FOR DISPLAY
These sketches explore different ways the zine could be presented during the Research Festival. I’ve been thinking about how the display can echo the tactile quality of the work itself, so I’m planning to make a hand-built stoneware holder for the zines. The idea is for the zine to sit within something that feels textured and made by hand, rather than using a standard book stand. The ceramic holder will also help slow the viewer down, encouraging them to take time with the pages, in the same way the work asks for slow looking and careful handling.
IDEA FOR MINI COLLAGE STARTER KIT
This page is where the zine becomes interactive. The little envelope will hold lots of small cut-outs from vintage magazines. The idea is that whoever looks at the zine can use these to make their own small collage. It is a quiet invitation to play, to arrange and piece things together, just like I do in my work.