"contemplating researcher" / by Clara.

Contemplating researcher

[London] : [Clara Searle], [2023]

1 folded sheet (6 unnumbered pages) : black and while illustrations ; 30 x 21 cm folded to 11 x 8 cm

Complemented by (work): A woman leaning wistfully on a large cushion. (b11841795)

This zine has non-standard binding. It consists of a 6-part folded booklet that opens out to a large portrait illustration.

One short side of the paper has a torn paper edge, and the zine is written and illustrated in pencil.

Title from cover.

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Handling and digital copies: Exhibited in "Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice" at Wellcome Collection, 14 March - 14 September 2025.

Exhibition caption written by Clara Searle for Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice at Wellcome Collection: "I was looking for potential zine workshop collage material when I found the original image. A brown woman slouched and pondering life: I saw myself. Reflection is a core element of my everyday life as a PhD researcher, and I wanted to capture my tiredness in a zine. Zines have allowed me to accessibly log and collect thoughts and feelings that may not be considered as conventionally academic, but the knowledges they hold and stories they tell are, in my opinion, infinitely more valuable. Here I expressed how fatigued my Long Covid, my ADHD, and my PhD can make me".