zine mailings: 2021-2022

In November 2021 I began a monthly creative challenge; to make a new art zine each month. As a textile artist who also loves to write I have found books and zines to be a great container for my work. This challenge has allowed me to share words and images that have been swirling around in my brain for years (so satisfying!), as well as allow me to buy printer ink and paper to keep me in zine supplies (not to mention help me pay my rent!).

Each month for nearly a year I offered a new zine mailing at a sliding scale of $5-15. This scale is meant to reflect the time, energy, and materials is takes to bring a zine to life. The low end covers time and materials (I love cheap art and believe everyone deserves to have art in their home) and the high end supports me as I navigate the world as a chronically ill artist (food, rent, bread, roses).

This is an archive. If you would like to purchase a zine, please check the availability on my webshop.

xoxo maya

November: The Wool Women

A four-part poem with accompanying drawings. These poems were written in 2015 and explore various spinners and weavers of myth-history.

Crafted from a single piece of paper with strategic folds and cuts. Originally mailed in a custom envelope decorated with a knitted pattern.

December: Note to Self (staying soft in hard times)

This whimsical broadside features a handwritten list that I wrote in my notes app in the winter of 2020-2021, surrounded by simple black and white drawings.

Printed on 8.5'“x11” novelty cloud paper. Originally mailed in vintage wedding RSVP envelopes painted with blue clouds.

January: Held 2020 (making clothes in a pandemic)

A small color zine folded from a single sheet of paper. It holds drawings and descriptions of the clothes I made and unraveled in the first year of the pandemic, as well a reflection about the grounding effect this practice had on me. A tender, tiny essay.

Originally mailed in a custom envelope.

February: To Sew a Home: the instructions

This zine is based on the reflection I wrote after I sewed my fabric house in 2018 (you can see photos of it here). It is meant to read as a set of instructions, inviting the reader to create a fabric house of their own, on any scale.

Machine sewn binding.

March: 8.8.21 (questions I ask myself when I can finally hear myself think)

A tiny zine made out of a single sheet of paper that can double as a poster when unfolded and pressed flat. A journal entry about being alone, taken from my diary last year.

April: Violet Season

A three-page essay written in the spring of 2021. Heartbreak, lambing season, violets, trichotillomania, release.

Printed on lavender paper.

8.5”x5.5”

May: Horsetails

A poem about moving on. Written in 2013 and finally released into the wilds.

A single sheet of paper holds four pages of verse. Printed on a variety of green paper.

8.5”x5.5”

June: Beechnuts

Fourth printing of this poem-zine, written for my mom in 2015. Riso printed this summer by Kristina Buckly of Two Fern from a scan of my original linocut.

July: The Bath

An essay about self romance and forest bathing.

Four pages of text.