Pockets of Resistance
Exploring the suburban subterrain
- Publication Design
- Inkjet Print
- 2019
Pockets of Resistance are areas pushed to the fringes of the public. Areas claimed by youth through acts of visual rebellion. This collection takes a closer look at some hidden hotspots of South Bay suburbia, and tries to learn a little from their defiance.
I wanted to make a zine that let the viewer into the little secret worlds around my hometown that I had explored as a child with my brother and friends. The project brought me to revisit these spaces and reflect on what makes them so special; investigating the significance of finding and claiming areas of privacy in public space.
“Reading Pockets of Resistance, what immediately resonated with me was a nostalgic return to days before cell phones and social media, finding unsupervised gaps in the suburban grid to evade parents, teachers and cops for brief windows of freedom. There was no underlying objective or activity outside of discovering, entering and existing in these spaces, where the removal of restraints would stretch time and catalyze expression. I think what struck me over time was the overlap or “cohabitation” of these spaces, that today I wouldn’t realize that the paths I tread were hallowed sites of a new generation.”
Chris (Older Brother)