{"id":57584,"date":"2025-10-03T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57584\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:09:09","slug":"pencil-magazine-reconnects-us-to-the-tactility-of-the-humble-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57584\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencil Magazine reconnects us to the tactility of the humble pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sasha Wizansky, a Maine-based writer and visual artist, is interested in pretty niche magazines. In 2007, she co-founded Meatpaper<\/a> with journalist Amy Standen, a printed quarterly journal exploring meat culture through origins art and journalism. With a background in art books, book binding, letterpress printing, and drawing, her creative endeavours led her to another idea in 2012 \u2013 something called Pencil Magazine<\/a>. What began as a thought experiment turned into thinking out loud \u2013 \u201ccould you create an entire magazine using only pencils and paper?\u201d she asked her husband.<\/p>\n

13 years later, we have two issues of Pencil Magazine, a hybrid text-image publication that includes drawings, comics, essays, poems, diagrams, and other experiments \u2013 all created with graphite pencils. Inspired by her teenage phase of drawing still lifes in graphite, the first issue of the mag took form of a tribute to that younger self. \u201cOver time, the project has come to represent more than just graphite; it\u2019s a kind of resistance to the fragmented attention of digital media. It\u2019s a space to explore the richness of analog experiences,\u201d says Sasha.<\/p>\n

Setting itself apart from other magazines, Sasha and her team mostly reproduce work at 100 per cent scale, preserving the immediacy of the original. With distinctive handwritten text and the friction of writing in pencil, a tactile and intimate connection is created between the reader, writer and page. \u201cI\u2019ve come to believe that using pencils cultivates patience and strengthens attention. We\u2019re also fascinated by the creative possibilities that emerge when you impose tight constraints \u2014 like the small scale and graphite requirement,\u201d says Sasha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sasha Wizansky, a Maine-based writer and visual artist, is interested in pretty niche magazines. In 2007, she co-founded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-57584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}