Digging #19 : a memoir zine by Rachel Lee-Carman
A zine: a self-published, limited circulation, typically experimental, publication.
32-pages, lovingly stapled.
Handwritten. Black & white. Rife with mispells and misgrammers (and two pages that got swapped but you'll see)
A song and dance of pen-writ personal essays on dedication pages accompanied by collage, illustration, and photography.
Essay / Page titles
Intro ● Everything You Wanted to Hear is Contained in a Letter that Never Arrives : Exuperian letters ● Plums Deify ● Aunt Rachel's NoCo Bar ● Willow Crowns ● Dear SadMad ● Riverstone Moments ● Prelude to the Following Pages ● Capricorn Moon ● Cafe Des Chutes ● Pisces Sun ● Aries Rising ● I came out to smoke a cigarette at sunset ● Choose Your Own Adventurer ● Wandering Alabursy ● Chores ● Invisible Thread Events
Summer 2024
Artist Bio
"Rachel Lee-Carman is a 38-year-old who pays her bills cleaning hotel rooms & doing odd jobs in art and pet sitting. She lives alone with her cat Yarrow & enjoys oscillating between her introverted and extroverted self."
A glimpse into a journal of a person who explores the depths of her psyche and maintains a vibrant curiosity with the world around her.
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Early reviews of friends who haven't read my zine yet:
"I'm excited to read this," - Caitlin 9/6/24
"Ooo, new zine! How exciting. Please send a big pile of those when ready." -Joshua James Amberson of Antiquated Future Zine Distro 9/5/24
Digging #18 : A Memoir Zine by Rachel Lee-Carman
A zine: a self-published, limited circulation, typically experimental, publication.
32-pages, lovingly stapled.
Handwritten. Black & white. Rife with mispells and misgrammers.
A song and dance of pen-writ personal essays on dedication pages accompanied by collage, illustration, and photography.
Essay / Page titles
Where to begin ● Once Loves ● You, Tyler ● Honestly ● Annie Enright ● Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt ● That Song Everybody Knows ● Make Your Own Lumpy Rose Beads ● Je Vous Salue Marie ● Hey Allison, ● Scabs ● Sean Claughton Evening ● Where Do I Begin and the Lasagna End? ● Jung ● The Quirky Girl ● Shit My Friends Are Doing
Summer 2023
Artist Bio
"Rachel Lee-Carman is a 37-year-old squash farmer who also cleans hotel rooms & draws & writes & lives in a rly cute studio in Redmond, Oregon where she mostly takes baths outside & makes tasty snacks all day while waiting for Hayley to invite her to the river & as soon as the exhibit is hung & the zines are printed we are going everyday I swear."
Resembles writing on the wall of a house falling apart.
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Early reviews:
"your zines are so cool I'm in awe goddamn dude." - MJ
"A Rachel Lee-Carman zine is an occasion, a rollercoaster of a reading experience, a semi-rare celestial event. In her distinct, collaged, artist's sketchbook style, Digging #18 is filled with wonder and hard-won wisdom." - Joshua James Amberson of Antiquated Future Zine Distro
Personalized Rubber Face Stamps
NOTE! Orders will be delayed a few weeks due to myself traveling. Please consider this when ordering. Thank you for your patronage.
Personalized rubber stamps for the ink-happy!
- Submit selfie for reference
- Approve or critique a variety of mock-ups
- Have your agreed upon image converted into a stamp!
Submit selfie for review ([email protected]) and I will draw it and turn it into a one-inch rubber stamp for personal use!
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