DON’T TAKE IT SO SERIOUS!
DON’T TAKE IT SO SERIOUS! is an exhibition built from a project brief to try the unknown. I chose risograph printing, partly because I have never touched a riso printer before, and partly because everyone kept telling me that it was fun.
Across twenty-six prints, I let myself experiment with being openly unserious. Each poster became a tiny exercise in embracing the odd, the imperfect, and the delightfully unnecessary. I let myself be weird and make posters that do not pretend to be deeper than they are. Their collective goal was to make space for looseness creatively, visually, and mentally.
Learning the risograph process was a collaboration between me, ink that never fully dries, and a machine that enjoys doing whatever it wants. Misregistration, surprise textures, accidental layering — every quirk became part of the aesthetic and part of the lesson. I believe that there is charm in the chaos of each print.
The final exhibition installed the prints across a gallery wall, creating a long, playful conversation between colors, phrases, and characters that all feel slightly unhinged but well-meaning. Together, they form an archive of moments where curiousity was more important than clarity.
This project taught me a new printing technique, yes, but more importantly, it taught me how to let things be silly, strange, or incomplete.
A reminder to myself, and to anyone who encounters the work:
take what resonates, laugh at the rest, and above all… don’t take it so serious.
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