RAW Zine

INDEPENDENT PROJECT | 2016-2018

Created with Amy Wang

RAW is a zine of real, unfiltered stories and thoughts, expressed through various artistic medium.

We released the first issue, “Who Are You To Tell Me Who I Am,” on February 2016, exploring identity and questioning who we are to us, who we are to others, and who we are in this world. In the second issue, we took inspiration from American neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer’s famous statement, “Protect Me From What I Want,” and explored craving and all those feelings of desiring, needing, and longing.

As an experimental side project, we created “glimpse” – a zine of secrets told anonymously through an online submission forum. We asked people to share their deepest, most embarrassing, or even the most mundane secrets, as well as provide a short description of themselves along with a “fake” name. We were overwhelmed with secrets, from those that made us tear up or laugh, from those that made us wonder for hours or hold closely inside our hearts. We chose 15 secrets, and I drew portraits of the secret-sharers based on their description which I hope exists as caricatures for them.

After a year and a half, we closed this chapter for individual creative endeavours, but RAW still remains in the archives for you to return to and hopefully find a bit of yourself in our stories.

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Cover of RAW Zine Issue 1: Who Are You To Tell Me Who I Am
Teaser of RAW Zine Special
“drowning” from RAW Zine Issue 1
“maybe both are me” from RAW Zine Issue 1
Cover of RAW Zine Issue 2: Protect me from what I want
January Playlist Cover
from RAW Zine Issue 2

VENDING

2019 – OCADU U Zine Fair with Project 40 Collective @ OCAD U

2018 – Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market with Project 40 Collective @ Trinity-St Paul’s United Church

2018 – The Toronto Comic Arts Book Festival with Lunchroom Toronto @ Toronto Reference Library

2017 – Xpace Holiday Zine + Maker Fair with Project 40 Collective @ Xpace Cultural Centre

2017 – Toronto’s First Asian Zine Fair with Project 40 Collective, WAYF Collective @ Tranzac Club

2017 – Toronto Art Book Fair 2017 @ Artscape Youngplace

2017 – LooseLeaf Magazine Volume 3 Launch, Project 40 Collective @ Eativefilm Cafe

2016 – CanZine Toronto 2016, Broken Pencil Magazine @ Art Gallery of Ontario

2016 – LooseLeaf Magazine Volume 2 Launch, Project 40 Collective @ Beit Zatoun