Meet Aaron Read, artist extraordinaire from Burnaby B.C., who created this year’s Canzine West poster (above) along with Jaz Halloran. Aaron is currently in his final year of study at Emily Carr University where he’s working towards a degree in visual art with a specialization in drawing. His work focuses on what he calls “visual instancies:” the interaction that occurs between imaginative space and figurative interactions.
Aaron had this to say when Broken Pencil asked him what he was most excited for at Canzine West:
“I am looking forward to seeing all the wonderful publications and the wonderful people who make or are involved in their distribution. Canzine West is a good opportunity to see work that might not make its way to book stores, or something self published that only a friend of the maker would have access to. These rare little finds are often the gems that blow your head back and make you stare at paper for hours.”
You can see a full line-up of events at this year’s Canzine West page here.