From the ForewordThis has proven to be an extremely challenging task, since sentiments vary and memory fades. While writing this project, the question of how one should portray real people, let alone friends, is daunting, because every aesthetic choice reveals some form of judgment. I do not have a solution for this dilemma. Rather, what I do have is a collection of attempts, in which the subjective voice is suppressed, memories are invented, or the issue is not considered a problem at all. Hence, the zine is less a ‘report’ proper, but rather a process of writing and transforming real people into literary beings and simultaneously documented subjects. The tensions that occur are barely handled gracefully. It is not my intent to provide truth or entertainment; all I have to offer is the extent of what I know about everyone I know.
Note: this zine is a preview and contains only a selected number of facebook friends.