zines

don't say a prayer for me now

2.75" x 4.25", 8 pgs, inkjet printed on graph paper, edition of 30, self published in 2008

$3 + shipping

hey oakland what's love?
printed in conjunction with the show come on over! at rps collective in oakland, ca

8.5 x 5.5", 30 pgs, b+w, laser printed on graph paper, stapled, 1st edition of 50 numbered, 2006

$8 + shipping

audio

one (atlanta, change and coming full circle)
25 min 35 sec audio cd with inkjet printed cover, numbered edition of 100, 2007

Ashley Neese regularly turns herself inside out to see where it will take you. One (Atlanta, Change and Coming Full Circle) continues this approach, bringing her own childhood memories to bear on the dilemmas presented by changing city landscapes. In this work, Neese gifts a sound portrait of the city in which she grew up—a directed rush to document monuments to her youth, to her varying degrees of happiness and unhappiness, to the idea that when the places we remember being cease to be, we’re left alone somehow. Her stories of Atlanta and home swing into action, reminding us of our own well-worn tales and the physical spaces that serve as provocation and demand for our memories.

text: shana agid

$20 + shipping

i want them to know (in three voices)
7 min 40 sec, audio cd, inkjet printed cover, plastic case, un-numbered edition of 150

$15 + shipping

60 heartaches for the class of '98
60 min, audio cassette, inkjet printed cover, un-numbered edition of 100

Neese’s wall of self-produced cassette compilations documents all the love songs the artist listened to in high school. The nature of the mixed tape, an item generally designed to be given to someone else, is inherently intimate and associated with an accumulation of memories. The mix-tape demonstrates self-expression in its underlying messages alluded to in song titles and themes, scrawled handwriting and cover artwork. The format of the cassette versus the CD significantly locates the work in the past and is part of its nostalgia. The work is evocative of the role of music and sentimentality in adolescence, prompting further reflection on characters from our own past, the songs we listened to at that age, and the mixes we gave and received.

text: tanya zimbardo

$10 + shipping

letters to benjamin gibbard
45 min 12 sec, audio cd with hand written cover, un-numbered edition of 20, 2004

for a description see projects page

$15 + shipping

buttons + stickers + postcards

hand written or typed 1.5" button

(usually they have something to do with love and sometimes i use song lyrics)

4 pack $6 + shipping

3.5 x 5" glossy stickers, rounded corners, hand writing over graph paper

(sometimes i repeat phrases from my signs, sometimes i use song lyrics, sometimes i want to tell the world everything is okay)

10 pack $6 + shipping

american girl postcards

4" x 6" glossy photos printed on heavyweight photo paper

(every pack is different)

10 pack $12 + shipping