Ciao Ciao Cloaca by Sarah Yu Zeebroek
LE /100 copies
20 tear-off riso prints in a booklet
Munken Pure Rough 170 gr

April 2021 Ghent
Self Published by
Topo Copy & Sarah Yu Zeebroek
THNX2: LUCA printlab Ghent

March 2020, when the first lockdown was announced, the hypochondriac beast living inside my head,suddenly became more active than ever. I knew I had to do something to calm this situation down. For if I didn’t, I was absolutely sure I’d be running around all day long with a fever thermometer between my teeth. I’d be eating mercury and end up dead with a kind of silver smile on my face.

I figured the best way to get out of this, was to create a game for myself. One that could be played daily, freely and rapidly. So I started collecting interesting snippets which were then randomly glued onto colored sheets of paper.

This playful method generated surprising new compositions. Next step was to come up with an idea for a drawing within 5 minutes. And this after having indulged into the latest internet news about the pandemic.

The works you’ll find in this book, portray my thoughts and frustrations, my questions and wonderings, my (dis)illusions and surprises regarding those

first weeks of lockdown. Consider these drawings,reflections of an unprecedented time in the history of mankind (well, all animals and our planet as a whole too, I guess). I hope you’ll enjoy them and you’ll be able to review or rethink this Big Bang of a viral noise.

I would like to thank Topo Copy for translating this project into this lovely Riso printed publication, Kim Duchateau for lending me his nightly outbursts on messenger, Fiona Messens for the revision and of course my beloved Parrain.

Feel free to take a print (yes, that’s permitted) and give one to your long-time suffering next-door neighbour. Or send one to a future family member.

Ciao Ciao Cloaca.
See you at the other end of the tunnel.
Sarah Yu Zeebroek