"For those who are in desperate need of stimulation, this zine delivers - its visual language is razor-sharp and packed with colour, each page feels like a porno magazine that has vomited everywhere. Hattie calls it a "frenetic deluge", a collection of themes that circle the drain of "online fatigue", a way to process an excessive amount of information in order to create meaning and seek comfort."
"Back when physical media "wasn't so scarce", Hattie would cut and paste a lot more liberally, but now printed media is precious - Visual Stimulation requires a lot more than Hattie would ever be willing to destroy. Printing with Risograph meant Hattie could maintain the imperfect quality of something handmade and due to her dislike of digital work in her own practice, she wanted to make sure that the textural qualities of the work was a little bit out of her control."
The zine uses razor-sharp, saturated visuals that overload the senses and evoke a pornographic, vomitous aesthetic. Themes orbit online fatigue while processing excessive information to create meaning and seek comfort. The design traces the history of stimulating media with cut-outs that entice, seduce and eroticise, revealing predatory messaging that preys on insecurities. Collage functions as a destructive rebirth, cutting up once-precious images to comment on fleeting dopamine bursts. Risograph printing preserves handmade imperfections and cedes some control, while printed media is treated as simultaneously precious and sacrificial in the pursuit of visual stimulation.
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