This book is a zine inspired compilation of photos, collages, quotes, and poetry titled “Oil & Water”. I created this book to capture the transitioning neighborhood of East César Chávez. I want to portray the hidden moments of beauty that emerge with rapid change to a neighborhood. Change is a liberation from the usual way, and provides opportunity for reinventions. I would like to show how both classes of people in the place are beautiful, using a zine style format (photocopy, handwritten, hand illustrated, and photographic collage) with interviews from residents, and artistic representations of the neighborhood’s diversifying character. This book will be read from front to back, and from back to front, with a special section in the middle. This will show the establishing latino and traditional attitude on one side, and the new artists class’s perspective on the other side, and where they meet in the middle, the new juxtaposition of the cultures of the place can be displayed.
