Do It Yourself/Hang In There Baby Zine by Trina Fernandez
“A photobook about cooking, loneliness, mothers and daughters, personal artifacts and leftover pork butt.
Cleaning out her mother's house, Trina found a collaged cookbook of her mother's from the early 1980s, collecting recipes and what Trina calls ‘a blueprint for the start of her family.’ In Do It Yourself, using that cookbook as a starting place, Trina reassembles the improvised meals of her own adulthood, and art directs them with the same eye-watering sense of excess that one finds in the Good Housekeeping cookbooks of the late '70s. The recipes' instructions reflect the struggles and heartbreak in her own life, contrasting them with those of her mother's thirty years earlier. Both experiences are tied together with Trina's oversaturated, perfectly staged photographs of her own creations. The result is an examination of memory, loneliness, depression and family that is both very funny and deeply affecting.” - Trina Fernandez
11” x 8.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
“A photobook about cooking, loneliness, mothers and daughters, personal artifacts and leftover pork butt.
Cleaning out her mother's house, Trina found a collaged cookbook of her mother's from the early 1980s, collecting recipes and what Trina calls ‘a blueprint for the start of her family.’ In Do It Yourself, using that cookbook as a starting place, Trina reassembles the improvised meals of her own adulthood, and art directs them with the same eye-watering sense of excess that one finds in the Good Housekeeping cookbooks of the late '70s. The recipes' instructions reflect the struggles and heartbreak in her own life, contrasting them with those of her mother's thirty years earlier. Both experiences are tied together with Trina's oversaturated, perfectly staged photographs of her own creations. The result is an examination of memory, loneliness, depression and family that is both very funny and deeply affecting.” - Trina Fernandez
11” x 8.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
“A photobook about cooking, loneliness, mothers and daughters, personal artifacts and leftover pork butt.
Cleaning out her mother's house, Trina found a collaged cookbook of her mother's from the early 1980s, collecting recipes and what Trina calls ‘a blueprint for the start of her family.’ In Do It Yourself, using that cookbook as a starting place, Trina reassembles the improvised meals of her own adulthood, and art directs them with the same eye-watering sense of excess that one finds in the Good Housekeeping cookbooks of the late '70s. The recipes' instructions reflect the struggles and heartbreak in her own life, contrasting them with those of her mother's thirty years earlier. Both experiences are tied together with Trina's oversaturated, perfectly staged photographs of her own creations. The result is an examination of memory, loneliness, depression and family that is both very funny and deeply affecting.” - Trina Fernandez
11” x 8.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Trina Fernandez (she/they) is a Filipino-American artist investigating communication and the impact media plays on our digital and physical lives. Coming of age during MySpace -Fernandez situates their photographic background through the rise and fall of technological accessibility and the commodification of identity. Reproducing social platforms in real life, nostalgia and overindulgence in 21st feelings serve as an entry point to the work. Photography and zines accompany a social practice that take a humorous and whole-hearted approach to our genuine desire for connection. Fernandez has presented research on our lives through images online at PCA/ACA, SECAC, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Visual research has been exhibited nationally and published by Birchwood Palace Industries.
TrinaPhotog.com | Instagram: @TrinaTr0n
