Brain Swimmers

This online zine is a sampling of ideas, notes and images culled from my notebooks.  Make your own Zine by following this simplified ‘Make a Zine’ prompt. 

1. Gather your ideas

2. Draw your pages

3. Make a cover and share

For a more detailed ‘Make A Zine’ Instructional - Check out Jay Howell’s How To here.

The Brain Swimmers pages are painted with acrylic shades of white and light blue on RISO color test scraps, then finished with lines in red gouache paint.  All the images and text are redrawn from my notebooks, ideas that have been swimming around my brain.

1. Brain Swimmers Cover. Painted over a rubber stamp I carved and printed.

2. Off brand Snoopy, Slowy, contemplating Quarantine time.

3. Snail Mail.  A snail brings a tiny letter to ...

4. The smallest mail box.   Will we still have a Postal Service going forward?  I sure hope so.

5. I often wonder, what relationship Octavia Butler and Stevie Wonder had to each other.  Did he read her book, “Parable or the Sower”? Did she hear his song, “A Seed’s A Star”?

6. I can’t stop thinking about that book and that song.

7. Stevie Wonder is love. Painted over a rubber stamp I carved and printed.

8. This quote by Herb Caen has been echoing in my mind for over a year.  I think of it in the context of recent decade of evictions and widening of sociology-economic divides... San Francisco has gone through so many cycles of downturn and renewal, what will the next glory days look like...

9. It takes on a whole new meaning as we quarantine and wonder what life will be like on the other side.

10. I draw the ‘tiger’ as a native mountain lion.  I believe in San Francisco and in San Franciscans.  These last two months have brought forth the city’s leaders, essential workers, health heroes and problem solvers, working hard for the health and safety of the collective.  I❤️SF.

Swipe through below to see images 1-10.