yellerzine. Bi-annual arts journal.
Winter 2016
Tactility.
Alex Roddan / Charlotte Dayman / Cora James / Gemma Batchelor / James Bell / Ming Yan / Natalie Najda / Nyree G / Rosie Lawson / Sarya Wu / Stephanie Wilson / Zoe Roberts
Dairy’s the devil Dairy, The white curdling anger I feel When I drink some milk Dairy, The sloppy goo of yogurt stains On my trousers Ruins my clothes.
Heifers weep oh so silently While I sit here, drinking some tea Fermenting life energy Equips my sandwich, Vitality.
Dairy, Extracted from female cows Not mine to claim But in the devil’s name?
There’s guilt in a Celebration box Each sweet enthralled with mischief I’m tempted just by gluttony But then I remember thusly:
Dear Diary, I had some cheese today My sins consume my Camembert But greedily. Mmm. Cheese.
Stolen right from the udder’s tip Compelled by awful corporate whips Screaming cattle, losing battles I no longer can commit
I want to feel the hurt they feel Mooing in wretched caged green fields I fail to realise it’s in my hands Cadbury? An industry of pain. So removed from reality This beverage, liquid purity Fed lies by nutritious entities Forgotten lies the calf and steed
Untitled (2014) Natalie Najda natalienajda.co.uk
Childhood foods They imminent evil But custard creams? So soft and sweet, Made with malice? I want to eat. While debating on some civil rights Eating pizza‘s now my single plight The choice is bad Dairy’s the devil But sinfully delicious. Dairy’s The Devil Sarya Wu pourallyourheartout.wordpress.com
CMYK, ROSE GOLD, SHAPES Nyree G nyreegee.com
Madeira Rosie Lawson @rosanna_lawson
For blind and visually impaired people who need to take several different types of medicine, to know which pills are in which bottle is important. Taking the wrong medication, the wrong quantity of medication, or taking certain types of medication at the wrong time of day, can have serious consequences. You might think that adding braille onto pill containers would be the obvious way in which to solve this problem. After all, braille has existed since the early 19th century, but how many blind people read braille? Well, according to an interview with an expert from the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) conducted as part of this project, fewer than 4% of blind people are able to read braille.
Instead of using braille, but retaining a tactile approach, the redesigned pill bottles are made easy to identify through the addition of different materials, enabling visually impaired and blind people to distinguish between their various medicines. Several different simple tactile forms are then also used to provide the instructions for use of each medication, enabling blind and visually impaired people to live more independent lives.
Touch Me Ming Yan @_whyim_
Kaleidoscope Cora James corajames.co.uk
texture
collage
Untitled Charlotte Dayman cargocollective.com/charlottedayman
Untitled (Gloss on MDF) Alexandra Roddan alexrodd.wix.com/alexandraroddan
Mandlebrot Worship. Golden moths fear the flame, timid and heavy as orphaned cubs, rather to dance at the edges of books. Candles flicker against these sugar windows, my shadow always remaining cast as salt-skinned movers burn friction in their mind’s eye, wide and throbbing as their rivers of love, and the chapel roof caves, crumbles. No-one to perish. They built it once, they can build again.
Mandlebrot Worship James Bell jamesfrbell.tumblr.com
Blue + White Zoe Roberts zoeroberts1@hotmail.co.uk
*”If you want to know all about ** Stephanie Wilson, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it… …I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental code, Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things.” Alluding to cultural archetypes, I try to find a balance between reestablishing and exhibiting aspects of cultural ephemera I find relevant. Through a sort of specular reflection, I hope to find new possibilities and potentials for expanding. My input, an artist’s input, is of limited depth, aiming to be irrelevant not identifiable, acting as a mere filter to achieve a still, coherent surface. An equilibrium paradox, where ‘Work’ is no longer a method of ‘production’ or ‘product’, but merely a means of determining whats ‘being’ and ‘been’ in order to allude to a feeling of everyday life, now. *(Quote originally written by A. Warhol, source of his quotes and philosophy on Pop Art & life: ‘Warhol in his own words, -Untitled Statements; 1963-1987, selected by Neil Printz, in ‘Andy Warhol, retrospective”, Art and Bullfinch Press/Little Brown, 1989, pp.457467). **Previously “Andy Warhol”. When Words Start to Mean Nothing Stephanie Wilson s-e-w-n.wix.com/intermediartist
Moments Gemma Batchelor gembatchelor.wordpress.com
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Editors: Connie Hurley, Grace Cullinan & James Crossley.
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