Studio Diary No.1

D01-24-Tx-a1

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NEW RELEASE

A long-form essay with original imagery accompanied by selected things-of-interest, the Studio Diary offers discourse from the POV of the London-based, Trinidadian contemporary artist, Lisa-Marie Harris. Delivered in a slimline zine format, each diary release - like an occasional, printed newsletter - will tease apart a single issue relevant to artistic inquiry, art practice, and living.

"We Need a Break, Too" interrogates what Harris calls the 'economies of exhaustion' and how it tokenizes labour and glorifies hustle culture like a badge of honour, whilst placing the basic need for rest, care and relaxation far beyond the reaches of the collective 'we.'

The essay asks: who exactly comprises this 'we' and why are they denied the right to a break?

How does finding rest become a problem when such a person is also an artist whose creative output often requires them to consistently engage with - and embody - their struggles in order to virtue signal a kind of social responsibility? And how do 'the others' benefit from such actions?

The Studio Diary is copletely advertsing free, artist funded, and studio-produced in limited print runs, by demand.

Studio Diary No.1

1st Print-run

210 x 100mm

Staple Bound

Archival Paper

Full Colour

52 Pages

Advertising free

Released Sept. 2024