Zine 2 of 6 in the Hue Year's Resolution Zine Collection. These diaristic explorations tell a chronological story through typographic, prose-filled digital collage art.

Beginning with past abuse & trauma and ending in my healing process, these zines take you through 6 years of my life (2012–2017), one hue at a time.

2022 marks one decade from the start of these events that led me to dark days, but never destroyed me. I am here today, celebrating my survival with the minting of this collection.

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------LETTERS: ZINE 2, ORANGE

Life Period: 2013–2014. A collection of illustrations of “his” words, postmarked over a 17-month period. This is the only zine in the collection in which the words are not my own, but instead, bits and pieces of letters addressed to me (in chronological order).

I chose the words I wanted to include with intention, in hopes of communicating and validating the confusion I felt at the time.

Consider these pages like fucked up greeting cards from a place of despair. Some of them are drenched in words that, at the time, I found incredibly romantic. And maybe they still are. But I'm not so naive anymore, and I won't allow anyone to take total advantage of my sympathy ever again.

Other pages are blatant illustrations of guilt.

It's hard to live your own life when you feel so responsible for someone else's. This is a theme throughout both of the relationships that span the red, orange, yellow, green, and blue zines. It isn't until purple that I finally begin to water myself.

I'd like to thank the subject of this zine for providing me with the words that decorate this piece. I may not have asked permission, but at times, neither did he.