Debora Alanna: "Time Traveller" - Oktozine

“The Time Traveler”
By Debora Alanna
Work made within the
Polka Dot OktopuZzee Kollective
May - July 2015

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Images within this zine combine drawing,
painterly treatments, collage and digital rendering.
All images are by Debora Alanna.
All words are written by Debora Alanna.

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Background to the creation of the zine:
Time Traveler…

The title of this zine comes from
the title image, and the final
image
“The Time Traveler” composite
of collage and later
formatted with text.
Time traveling in this zine refers
to an amalgamation...
Memory, consideration of and
respect for the past
addresses
future possibilities colouring the
resolve to develop, produce
work in the
presence and impact of delight
akin to travelling.

“Biography of the Sun” began as a
collage of images that were
subsequently painted.
Text cut from a magazine was
added and became the title of
this work.
A digitally rematserd image was
rendered black & white for the
zine.
This work is about the octopus
influence for the artist, how the
sun radiates as ideas
represented by octo-tenacles
capricious and overlapping.
These influences are powerful and
generate a release of bias
allowing the past to mingle with
the new. Its allure and innate
presence are a story.

Beginning as a watercolour
painting, collage material
was added to the work.
The image was recoloured
digitally and later
rendered black & white to
marry the painting to cut
out images.
“Conversation” utilises
octopus imagery to
demonstrate lighthearted
banter between the sexes.

“Mizmaze” originated as a
ball-point pen drawing
on paper that was
digitally remasterd for
the zine.
This work is about the
intricacies of existence
and resolve to live
generously as an octopus
matrix.

A painted collage that was
rendered black &
white for the zine,
“The world’s last
mysteries” is a
description of a
woman’s interest and
salute to her relations
with men.

A photo of a chalk drawing by
a stranger was digitally
manipulated and
remasterd into an “There
is no table between us”.
This work shows how the
attention of one to another
is obvious and yet
precarious. This caricature
of human relations
playswith a cartoon
octopus perspective.

Named after the poet, “Octavio Paz” in
recognition and reference to his
writing,
“Labyrinth” began as a collaged image
with paint treatment subsequently
remastered / digitally rendered
black & white for the zine.
Working with the labyrinth concept ,
this image is about the
buoyancy of present time, place, the
silence produced through emotional
space where suspended belief in
connectivity is a maze that holds
humanity.

With a firm reference to beat poets,
this work was initially a pen on
paper drawing. A digital
drawing was superimposed on
the original, and digitally
remastered.
This work is about surviving and
thriving in spite of life
challenges.

Word art was superimposed
on this black and white
pen drawing.
The image was repeated
with different words to
form a diptych within
the zine.
This two paged inclusion is
about the movement
and depths constituting
attributes of physicality.
“Insatiable” describes our
corporeal , emotional
and intellectual selves as
we relate to octopuses.

Black and white in the zine, this
image is mirrored with
another of the same, upside
down on the same page.
Brought together with the text of
the title and overlayed dots,
it was rendered black &
white.
This work is about self-
consciousness within
burgeoning relationships.
Time is a texture and a gesture
where figures are wary and
become the background and
foreground.

Thank you for your interest in Debora Alanna’s
“Time Traveler” zine.
This work is available for purchase.
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© Debora Alanna. All rights reserved.

Meeting weekly with her
colleagues, Debora Alanna
became inspired by the
sensibilities of collaborative
thinking - sharing thoughts
and developing
new work practices.© Debora Alanna. All rights reserved.
From
May – September 2015
Debora Alanna worked
within a
group of artists called
Polka Dot OktopuZzee (Y)
Art Kollective
that included
Pj Kelly, Roy Green &
Debora Alanna – artists from
Esquimalt &Victoria BC.
Photo of Debora Alanna
by
Pj Kelly

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Everyone wants to be OktoPuZzee #1 –
collage, mixed media, paint, digital
rendering
Everyone wants to be OktoPuZzee aka
Michael Jackson #2 – collage, mixed
media, paint, digital rendering

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“Loose lips sink ships” – collage,
paint, digital renderings
“Oceans of experience” – acrylic on paper

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“Octopus sunbathing on sidewalk”
– digital drawing on photograph
“Octopus sees everything”
– drawing: pen on paper with text

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“Vexed ” pen on paper “The path is clear” – pen on paper

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“Swimming upstream” – collage,
mixed media, digital rendering
“Okto terrain” - watercolour,
digital rendering

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