⊹ INTRODUCING GOOD ARSON

pre-order my second zine :)

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Good Arson
$15

FREE FOR PAYING SUBSTACK SUPPORTERS, NOW KNOWN AS SECRET GRANOLA CLUB MEMBERS — USE CODE GRANOLA

✿ NEW SZN, NEW ZINE!!! Introducing Good Arson, publishing October 2024. 4 poems cloaked in a chrome gold cover print. It falls in between wrath and comfort, rage and rebirth. Dark. Glitters with self respect.

• 12 x 18 inch print, folded into an 8-page booklet
• Gold water-based screenprinting ink
• Double sided black art paper, 135 lb
• First edition of 50 handmade copies
• Printed at Gowanus Print Lab by Todd Allen Rutledge

Pre-order today to reserve your copy. 1st edition ships in mid-October, US only for now. I’ll announce here when it ships. Please pre-order. Just pre-order. (& Secret Granola Club members, cash in on your perk!) It helps me gauge how much to make before the prime production window passes.

You can also forward this email or text the product page to a friend who had a hard year. 𐙚 I’m pretty offline these days & would love your help spreading the word.

the glorious cover in full! in between metallic gold and silver

Production note: There are six copies where we tested double printing, which yielded a deeper gold hue and a slightly blurred effect. See the difference in the preview pics here. Email me at vicky@skincontact.studio if you want one of the extra goldy ones; otherwise they'll be sent out at random.

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Inspired by the writing of Hanif Abdurraqib, Victoria Chang, Lorenza Mazzetti, and Adam Zagajewski.

Table of Contents:

1. Good Arson

2. Solar Gold

3. Which Way to Eternity?

4. Lifecycle of a Lotus

Good Arson

            Always stay gracious, 
            Best revenge is your paper
            BEYONCÉ, “Formation”

drop the gun daughter drop it! bullets do not save a safe house on fire, a sanctuary turned wasteland, a desert of dreams still hot to the touch. to be honest you fear dreaming now, you fear returning to lesser desire, so you keep a fist of cash under the mattress and a lighter under the pillow so the next time a beloved tells you a story that is untrue—you are not afraid to let it ignite

Playing with the lotus garden for printing

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⊹ GOOD ARSON: BEHIND THE SCENES PT. 1

Step 1… Forget Arc browser’s board feature exists. Download the Pinterest app, sit in a Japanese cafe and pin away. Collect, react. Narrow in on Pomegranate Press’s Twist and a Secret Riso Club’s print for the gold-ink-on-black idea.

Granola lovers, read on for more ideation & process notes. If you’d like in, join the Secret Granola Club below for $5/mon or $50+/year. Then use the code GRANOLA to get Good Arson as your sign up bonus :)