Week 4 – Artists OTW – Tom Sachs & Johanna Fateman

 Both Sachs and Fateman are artists making zines, but their concepts and art styles for their zines are very different. Sachs's zines show his interests, worksheets, and DIY projects that the reader or he does. His zines seem like they are fit for people who like to try new projects and exploring their interests. The zines that I looked at were Moon Rock Report and 10 Bullets. 10 Bullets is a zine that I think tells you how to make your life easier. From the pictures that I see, none of the instructions are particularly hard, if anything these things are obvious to know, but they're things that many people procrastinate on, such as cleaning the house and washing the dishes. Moon Rock Report explores his interest in the moon and shows pictures of moon rocks and documents detailing each rock. From what I've seen, Fateman mostly did zines as a diary. Her zines seem more punk/emo which is something I probably would have done as a high schooler and I love it. I didn't find a lot of what is inside her zines, but her drawings look very dark and angsty. I really like Fateman's zines because they are definitely something I would have been interested in when I was younger and I was having issues at home, so they really interest me. Although, I wasn't much of a diary person so maybe I wouldn't have made zines, but I probably would have been reading those or something similar. 

This is a part of Tom Sach's 10 bullets zine

This is Johanna Fateman's zine. 


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