Wanderlust
Wanderlust— travel through pages.
Chloe Chong, Leimi Obata, Nabiha Subzwari, and Sowjan Sritharasarma
Wanderlust means “a strong desire to travel”. Ironically, during a pandemic, traveling is the last of our priorities. However, the pandemic has shifted what it means to travel. While we cannot physically visit different places, our focus is present in various subjects across the country and world. Using social media and other digital outlets, we voice our activism for movements such as BLM and climate change, and fight for democracy in the 2020 election.
Our cover emphasizes what it means to be a part of something that is being looked at, but at the same time does the looking. The buildings in the background make up the NYC skyline and the cat on the top left symbolizes a creature that blends into the NYC atmosphere and has the ability to look without being noticed. The woman at the center of our cover represents the Statue of Liberty. In the past, she was a figure that was looked at. Now, we give her back her power with her crown of NYC buildings and for her refusal to be looked at by you. The flowers symbolize the beauty that lies in looking and a twist on “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Along with the heaven-like background, the flowers bring elegance to NYC— a place we call home. The beauty of the cover juxtaposes the harsh truth within the pages.
Part of wanderlust is having a strong impulse or restlessness to move and experience. Our zines showcase our experiences and present a way that satisfies our wanderlust by traveling through a person’s thoughts.
The images below will take you throughout our group’s process of creating the cover.
This is one of our first sketches. We utilized the line art style and created a figure of a woman looking to the right. To the left and right of her are flowers that connect up to form the NYC skyline in the background. At the bottom of the page are the words “Quaran-Zine” and “2020”.
This is another one of our first sketches. Also using the line art style, at the center is the face of a woman in the center staring straight.
This is the final sketch of our project. We combined the multiple sketches we had and condensed it into one page. Likewise, the final sketch utilizes line art.