See You Onna Dark Nite by Arantza Peña Popo: I love when a zine reminds readers that it is a physical object — that it exists in three dimensions and should be handled as such. Arantza Peña Popo does this in See You Onna Dark Nite by cutting eye-shaped holes into the cover, which allows images from the underlying page to peek through. It’s a clever visual technique, but it does more than just sit there and look cool: The disembodied eyes formed by the cover’s negative space hint at the zine’s broader preoccupations. Throughout this short visual essay, Arantza reflects on the way that walking alone in the dark allows her to disassociate from her body: “I’m just a weightless omniscient character,” she writes, “floating above myself, a voyeur of my own life.” In this context, the eyes on the cover might be her own, but they implicate the reader as well. We are also voyeurs, floating above the zine, watching Arantza’s ghostly figure as she dissolves and drifts across the pages. It may seem ironic that a zine with such physical self-awareness is given the task of representing feelings of weightlessness and disassociation, but perhaps that’s why it works so well.

• here’s a link to see this zine online
• here’s Arantza’s website
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