Touch It : Where We Call Home - Sydney Howard
“TOUCH IT” is a project by zug press that gathers artwork around a specific theme. By transforming artwork into artist interview zines and riso/inkjet prints, zug press aims to create small, physical, tactile works that offer greater accessibility to the audience, provide another form of the original work, and give an additional way to connect with the artists.
In our first collection “Where We Call Home”, we explore the notion of home with lens- and video-based artist Sydney Howard. Together, We discussed how her family shaped her artistic practice and how art served as a healing process for her. Sydney’s work emphasized the materiality and the tactility of physical objects. We explore in this zine the dynamic between material and memory in her work. Her pieces, particularly the lace photograms, are presented on paper through risograph printing.
Sydney Howard is a visual artist from upstate New York, currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her multidisciplinary practice is primarily rooted in photography, video and installation and centers around themes of memory, trauma, gender and labor. She earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2024 and a BFA from Syracuse University in 2018.
5 x 7 ½ inch
28 pages, with gatefold spread
Artist: Sydney Howard
Editorial Design: Xinyuan Qu
Art Direction: zug press
150 copies, numbered; printed in August 2024, Providence
Mono-color Risograph; Laser Print
Production credit: Tam Stockton, Yuanhui Li, Yuchen Wang