Two handcrafted zines made by artist in residence for the month of June 2020, Charvel Rappos.

cw: this zine deals with themes of suicide

$20 from each purchase will be donated towards Women's Wellness Within

Charvel Rappos is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator, and community organizer living and working in K'jipuktuk/Halifax. Charvel’s work is centred in a creative exploration of the everyday as a force against banality. Her work pairs instance with exploration in order to understand social and personal states, how they move, and how they remain. Process based, her work is often used as an informal tool to produce and manage contradictions of these states; absorbent, she strives to uncover new and lost approaches to doing so.

A bit about Charvel’s project Son, Dog.

Son, Dog. was an immersive and honest exploration of grief.

Charvel worked on a collective musical composition that was drawn from her own geographic score and based on a piece of writing she holds dear. Accompanying the composition is this small publication exploring her approaches and process to the composition as well as tangential thoughts surrounding the work. 

Through resistant themes of structure/chaos, intuition/reason and ownership/loss, Charvel strived to uncover the tension of unknowns. Working with approaches that are both nonsensical and logical, she spent her time trying to find common threads that tie her to such unknowns, pushing and stretching across prescribed boundaries.

Drawing on friends, community and her own experience, she carefully explored a wide range of beliefs and standards which direct her process and slowly question the possibilities of resolution in grief.