The Daily Stress catalogues states of anxiety, paranoia, ignorance, detachment, and hopelessness that have become the standard condition of so many people today.
On newsprint, the book is an assemblage of intimate, poetic texts and fictive narratives presented as articles. The textual works are complemented by photos, primarily taken on-the-go during my daily routine. Using affective design tools such as short articles, melodramatic titles, awkward advertisement styles, and print layout, I embrace stress as a form of critique to a seemingly indestructible system. Based on the format of the New York Daily News (12.5x10 inches), I utilize this design and layout format, but alter the tone of the content that follows the usual sections of politics, gossip, culture, business, weather etc. without claiming objectivity or truth. Instead the resulting collage describes the complex emotion that is generated by the overflow of negative information. I invited 17 artists to contribute by reimagining advertisements, comics, articles and horoscopes based on their own practice and interests.
