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Try Less Hard is the story of a king and his owltopus. Try Less Hard is about leaving home, remembering the places that you have left, imagining the places you haven't been yet, and acquiring experience along the way. It's both funny and poignant, and there's a lot of meat in it. Try Less Hard is a philosophy for artistic collaboration. Definition #1: Try less hard is relying less on inspiration and more on process and collaboration. Try less hard is listening, being patient, being tolerant, being still. It is hard to try less hard. We sometimes fail when we try to try less hard. Try less hard is a work in progress. Definition #2: Try less hard is letting work direct itself, allowing the process to take its course. Try les hard is near the owltopi, fish coats and shores made of bread. It can be cultivated as a houseplant with the requisite constraints, collaboration, fertilization and many hours of work. It takes more time than trying hard.

The Legacy of the Great Chicago Fire by a Cow is a an account of the interpretation of the Chicago fire from the perspective of one of the people/creatures involved in the fire. It was written by a student of the Polaris Charter Academy.

I took the title from a Clarice Lispector chronicle & said everything I write this year will be called an abstract door b/c it feels like I'm always trying to open or enter an experience & never being able to, such as the theme of this first issue: job search post-college, mother-daughter relationship, happiness.

An ethnographic multi-media work on singed paper, an archaeological collage of pictographs, symbols, and meanings.

Bird Wizards is Joyce Rice's autiobio zine.

Color photos of collected art and works of Diode Ring from 2011-2012

Bird Wizards is Joyce Rice's personal autobio zine.

Color photos taken in Chicago near Union Park

Color street photography taken in Chicago's Ukrainian Village

Color photos taken in Chicago