“Kaleidoscope” is an experimental zine that transforms fragments of my personal history into shifting patterns of color, texture, and form. Drawing from childhood photos and memories, I layered, distorted, and reimagined them into abstract compositions that mirror the unpredictable nature of recollection. I found a way to seal the past in pages of color—capturing both the vivid and painful shards that shape identity. Through symbolic imagery, suggestive typography, and contrasting visual languages, the zine invites readers to turn its pages as though turning a kaleidoscope, discovering new constellations of meaning with every glance.
The zine is encased in a handmade sleeve crafted from a decades-old crocheted Bulgarian table mat discovered in my grandparents’ home, bejewelled with small crystals. This tactile element carries traces of Slavic heritage that often hides both beauty and trauma, but here it bridges into reinvention, personal growth and healing while Its lace-like shapes echo the geometric forms seen inside a kaleidoscope, while the crystals recall the vibrant bursts of color refracted within it.
