{"product_id":"steelwool-zine","title":"Steel Wool - Poetry and Illustration  1st Edition","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e002Press is an interdisciplinary collective and printing press based in NJ. Their work focuses heavily on zine-making, bookmaking, poetry, music, illustration, and graphic design. Their work features a synthesis of drawing and graphic design in a few key ways; character design and the usage of identity as living symbol, the coded identifiers of a person and how they manifest as visual and immaterial design structures, and a commitment to visual and poetic improvisational aesthetics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn other words, 002Press aims to operate through a lens\/ style of hyper-vulnerability as a survival response to living as Black people in a world that socio-economically seeks for our demise. Their hope is to transmute this living trauma into song, ideally to facilitate connection and community \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this second jawn, 001 and 002 give you access to a selection of poems produced individually and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecollaboratively. Additionally, Steel Wool aims to embody their multidisciplinary modes of expression through an echoed voice of drawing and creative writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZine design \u0026amp; creative \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edirection by Saint Twin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal poetry by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaint Twin \u0026amp; Artmaps\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal Illustrations by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJustyn Morris \u0026amp; Alfred Dudley III\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinted in studio by 003 hand bound by 002Press in NJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCopyright 002Press 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work has been made possible by a grant received by The New Jersey State Council for the Art’s Individual Artist Finalist Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"002Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48262005031065,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/9611\/5865\/files\/SW_cover.png?v=1782662645","url":"https:\/\/shop.drawingcenter.org\/products\/steelwool-zine","provider":"The Drawing Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}