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EDITORS NOTE
When do we go. is an issue made up of works from BIPOC and neurodivergent artists. The pieces come together with an understanding of time. Time as being fragmented, as nothing and everything, as moments ever present.
When do we go is a statement of moving forward into better things, it is a refusal to stay stagnant in something or someone that no longer serves you.
The artists, Alyssa Vernon, Andi Raquel, Palilo, and MIÉCHÉLLÉ have created work that is a reflection of their personal experiences as marginalized individuals living through the past couple of years of the global pandemic.
Our artists come from all over the world, from the traditional territories of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, Michi saugeeg, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. From the confederacy lands and waterways of Canada to Santiago, Chile.
Whatever time and place you find yourself and the zine, we encourage you to get to know about the local Indigenous activism happening in your city. Take the time to learn, and to support where you are wanted.
It is collective action that will help us move forward.
Take a breath, and ready yourself.
Your editors; Kemi King and Lisbet Maclean at YIKES Co.
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Artwork & Written Piece by Palilo - (He/Him)
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Love Letters to Black Women:
Alyssa Vernon - (she/her)
The following pages include 4 posters of my collages I’ve made in 2022. If you are a Black woman, or Black person, please feel free to take these posters out of the Zine and put them up in your room, on your fridge, wherever you feel you want to display them to remind yourself that Black women and femmes are beautiful, and worthy of being perceived as such. If you are not a Black person, I implore you to help share these Love Letters for Black Women by giving them away: give a poster to a Black woman that you love, put it up at your workplace for all to see, or tape it to a lamppost in your neighborhood. The goal is to have my work transcend this Zine space, and be shared so that the message gets across to whoever needs it: Black women, we love you, we see you, and we need you.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Artwork and Thought Prompts
by MIÉCHÉLLÈ (Any/They)
My artist statement is in hopes of folks to start at a base to connect with our practice of slowing down. My hope is that the reader will take the time to look at their own identities, and their own ways of care exploring that as to start and or continuation process. The moon phases and invitations like prompts can be a starting framework for them to find a way to reconnect with their own ancestral and culture practices if they choose to, by following the moon phases as many cultures do. Here have shared a really basic and it is a practice that you keep coming back to you as you’re exploring experiences, whether it’s the chosen family or different circumstances and lives can allow them to reconnect with a who they are and why they are cultivating their own unique artististic practices what ahs changed during this evolving pandemic , and what that would mean for them
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Artwork and Thought Prompts by
MIÉCHÉLLÈ (Any/They)
This work is part of a larger series in which I speak on women’s health. Women are not treated fairly within medical systems, leading to us not knowing enough about our bodies. It is essential for future generations to learn [which?] practices, in order for us to slow down. This is resistance, and in that is creativity.
I use the moon in this work as a reminder to connect. To connect to the moon, and to our larger purposes in life. The moon’s phases can be used to check into our everyday and be more intentional with the way we live
There are seven phases of the moon.
Phase one is reseting usually meaning that things have happened. Is that what you still want is that not what is the intention as a whole for the whole year? what is the bigger picture? Phase two check in. Phase three full moon rest what does that mean to you? What would it mean to be fully being with and connecting to your being? Phase four check in to the previous and the larger vision time to let go Phase five check in with this if continuing the practice Phase six awareness patterns from others finding oneself what are message imposed? What is ours creating message to affirm ourselves and likeminded will come along Phase seven check in all those and repeat this is also resting
Think about what truly makes you feel nourished
Check in back when there are shifts mentallly physically emotionally
Check within...
Any tenseness if its accessible...maybe what you're around Allow what thoughts to come and go..
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
YIKES Co is proud to present WHEN DO WE GO as the second volume in our zine experiments.
YIKES Co. is a production company that focuses on experimental and abstract work. With the zine experimentswe aim to get artists and readers thinking about a topic that reflects the current time and space we are living in. WHEN DO WE GO, reminds us that this moment is not the end. The earth will still spin, and the grass will still grow; when do we go is a reminder of moving forward.
With this zine there are invitations to cut out some of the works for distribution, or to keep for your own personal reflections. The pages do not have to contain the art.
Please feel free to send us your interactions and placements of the mini-poster pieces to be shared on YIKES’ socials.
There is power in artistry, and our work can do more than just highlight the problem.
Your Comrades at YIKES Co.
Kemi King, Lisbet MacLean, & Somalee Garg
Yikestheatreco@gmail.com
@Yikestheatreco on Instagram & Twitter
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