For Expozine 2011, I ven­tured out into putting together a lit­tle ‘zine of my own — and am now mak­ing it avail­able for view­ing online via Issuu.

The title “Know Hope” comes from a par­tic­u­lar spec­i­men of spray-painted graf­fiti that I passed by every­day in Mon­treal, and it now has become my motto. Cob­bling together some of my own writ­ing along­side quotes from some of my favourite writ­ers and thinkers, I’ve illus­trated (most of) it with my illus­tra­tions and dig­i­tal col­lages, with the theme being “evolution.”

I appre­ci­ated all the won­der­ful responses this ‘lil zine gar­nered at Expozine. There was much quiet read­ing and reflec­tion as peo­ple picked it up and thumbed through it — lin­ger­ing on some pages, nod­ding or con­tem­plat­ing. It truly gave me much plea­sure to share it — even exchang­ing crys­tals with one young woman for one copy of the zine instead of cash. That was awesome.

If you would like to pick up a hard­copy, it’s cur­rently avail­able for sale at the Con­cor­dia Coop Book­store in Mon­tréal (along with my hand­made cards and prints), and will be avail­able via my Etsy store soon.

Any­ways, please enjoy — I hope to con­tinue with future evo­lu­tions / edi­tions of this zine and I wel­come any feed­back you all might have.

http://issuu.com/collectivepsyche/docs/know-hope-evolution