Zine Project with MSU Museum
This past year, I have been a student employee at the MSU Museum, educating people about climate change in their 1.5 Degrees Celsius exhibition. As an additional project to this role, I created a zine with some of my fellow student workers. Our zine captured the spirit of each of the sixteen pieces that were on display in the exhibition.
An Ecological Oracle (Right)
Our world faces dangerous rises in temperature and sea level, alongside the melting of polar ice caps. In one of my pieces for the zine, I depict mountainous images of ice and carnage to display the role that humans have played at the center of it all. Composed of pictures, quotes, and headlines from issues of National Geographic, I hope to showcase the urgency of our present and our need for immediate action.
Call to Action (Left)
With the informal, experimental nature of a zine as a medium, I was in charge of creating the back cover, the final page of our work. For each of the sixteen exhibition pieces, I created an icon that represented the themes and symbols present in these works. These hand-drawn icons centered around the question: “What will you do?” As the final note for the reader, I wanted to confront them to address their individual role in the looming issue of climate change.
