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I Don’t Need to Be Reminded of Life’s Impermanence
Alick Shiu
In this poetic and playful zine, Bay area artist Alick Shiu illustrates Iphone notes in what he calls a "collage of ideas".

Published by Heavy Letters
2018
34 pages
5.5 x 8.5 inches

︎ USD $12 ︎
Cover of the Zine. The title is handwritten and backwards printed in blue riso. The artists name sits at the bottom of the page handwritten forwards, printed in red riso. A pink face masculine face with a large nose and black eyebrows peeks down from the upper corner of the left page. On the right page the sounds "Shhhhhhhh..." scrowls down the page taking up 6 lines of text. A black line drawing of two hands clasp at the center of the spread. Pink handwritten text across the top of image reads "i reached out for tenderness". On the left page is a illustration of a pink leg with stubbly hair, white and red striped socks, and a blue sneaker. On the right, black handwriting reads "five feet to the left and full of feeling". An open spread of the zine. On the left side a large purple rectangular block of color sits above black handwritting that reads "picture of a grapefruit". On the right page three lines of handwritten text scrawl across the upper potion of the page reading "the sky was grapefruit color that day".