Is This Something? is a surrealist zine that explores the experience of creative block as both a visual and psychological landscape. Through presenting the creative process via narrative, the work unfolds as a sequence of environments that reflect shifting mental states. It begins with imagery of fluid movement, where ideas feel abundant and accessible, before gradually breaking down into fragmentation and stillness. This deterioration culminates in a desert, marked by absence and disorientation, before turning inward into a dreamlike sequence tracing creativity back to the mind
Utilizing a zine format allows this progression to be experienced physically, with each page acting as a step through the process. The layered color printing process creates vibrant, dreamlike imagery, while slight misregistrations and inconsistencies introduce instability into the images. This approach draws on the fragmented, sequential logic of Lale Westvind, whose risograph zines use shifting panels and abstracted forms to mirror changing mental states. In my work, imperfections reflect the tension between control and unpredictability. I hope that readers of the zine will reflect on how ideas emerge, disappear, and reconfigure within the mind as well as reconsider creative block as a necessary and generative part of the artistic process.