Mundane Days Along the River


This is an on-going project documents the views along the canal waterway by using mono printmaking with an outcome of a handcrafted zine. I am producing a series of monoprints to respond to and archive those the days along the canal waterway, especiallly the life of people on the boat, as well as the changing natural environment surounded.

Those people choose to live on the boat for different reasons, some of them are travellers, migrants, short time visitors, or locals but want to change a way of living. But for whatever reasons, the life on canal system is hard and unstable, they have to constantly prepare for leaving. I re-organize those prints into an handcrafted zine, which printed on transclucent papers. These images are superimposed, layer after layer. It invites the audience to read and feel uncertain, floating, and changing mundane of life through layered black and white images.






Zhenyi Zheng



I am a Chinese UK-based Illustrator,
visual designer and self-publisher.

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Email: zhenyizheng1228@gmail.com
Instagram:@zhenyiii_zheng

2020-2023
Illustrations
Home Phrases
Urban Mundane in Netherlands
Canal Dreamer
Home Wander
Cost of Living-visual minutes
Period
Mid-Autumn
Summer Ilusion
Valentines
In the Forest


Children’s Books
Where is the Kitchen God找找灶王爷

Wolf Grandma 狼外婆

Comics
Banana Trap
Summer Maze
Disorder

Visual Design
Canal Dreamer
Through the Window

Zines
Banana Trap
Mundane Days Along the River
Conversation with a Stone

2017-2019
Disorder
Parents
Trouble