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Slow Looking by: These Views Are Our Tools 
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Inspired by, and dedicated to, artist, educator, and social justice advocate Corita Kent, Slow Looking: These Views Are Our Tools is an invitation to practice a different way of seeing our world. In this artist book, Lukaza Branfman-Verrisimo offers us prompts, coloring pages, and 2 dicut viewfinders, as tools for slowness.

Currently on second printing
Risograph printed, coil-bound
2021
30 pages
5.5 x 8.5 in

︎ $15 USD  ︎
Image Description: The cover of a vertically bound book with a bright golden yellow coil spiral. On white paper the title is Risograph printed in Purple, and a dit cut cover creates a readymade viewfinder to reveal a rectangle of the title page below. In the window to the title page we can make out elements of block letters including a "W L O" in the center, with purple shading in the background Image Description: An open spread of a vertically bound zine, Risograph printed in purple ink on white paper, with a bright yellow coil. The top page has a photograph of the artist holding a viewfinder with a triangular cut out up to their face so all you see is their eye. The bottom half is a handwritten page of text about Corita Kent. An open spread of a vertically bound zine, Risograph printed in purple ink on white paper, with a bright yellow coil. The top page has the phrase “When I slow down i notice more” in large block letters that fill the space, run together, and break lines at odd intervals, so you have to read it slowly to understand. The bottom page had a line drawing of two paper lantern looking objects hanging from sticks in a small rectangular box, with a bit of text inviting the reader to use the zine as a coloring book. A photo of the book Slow Looking test on a table unbound from it’s coil. On the right The interior pages are slightly fanned out on the dark wooden surface. Towards the left, a white hand holds the cover sheet a few inches above the table. The center of the cover has a die-cut rectangle which frames a bright orange satsuma, the books loose yellow coil, and a number 2 pencil, on the table below.
 

10% of proceeds will be donated to Maine Youth Justice, an organization working to end youth incareration in Maine.