Hallozeen is here, and so too is a little foster pup by the name of Remy

Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Bats aren’t scary
2021
Digital print zine
Edition of 25
and
Something reverberated
2021
Digital print zine
Edition of 40

The Seventh Annual Hallozeen Spooky Zine Extravaganza is coming up online and at the Mission to Seafarers, and Louise and I will be taking part in both events.

See you there, should you be near, free, brave, as we have two new zines to share.

Tomorrow, please head to:
Hallozeen.rip
Online group launch for Halloween-themed zines
Sunday 31st of October, 2021
From 12 pm

And next week, in person, please head to:
The Seventh Annual Hallozeen
The Mission to Seafarers
717 Flinders Street, Docklands
Sunday 7th of November, 2021
12pm–5pm

Bats aren’t scary was created especially for #Hallozeen, and a forest walk for your pocket, Something reverberated, was created to celebrate a forthcoming group exhibition. Both zines will be available at both spooky events. And, as ever, through our online store.

Bats aren’t scary is a four-page, fold-out zine, hand-cut to make the increasingly familiar shape of a Grey-headed flying fox.

Something reverberated is a tiny, 16-page concertina zine with a paper belt held in place by strips of green and brown washi tape.

Both zines are small editions, so if you’re keen on the look of these, our advice is: make haste.

You can see them in hand, in the reels above, at the Yarra Bend colony, filmed, rather fittingly, after we received our bat boosters from the GP. These zines were a joy to make, and we are hugely appreciative of your interest in our work, and our new little foster pup, Remy, a healthy Grey-headed flying fox.

Remy is teaching us. And we are listening.

They’ve been here longer than us, in the ‘kin-dom’, and have much to impart.

Six days in and Remy’s forearm now measures 86mm, which means he is 25-days-old. He enjoys his sun bursts on the verandah, and grooms and beats his wings. They make a pleasing swoosh-swoosh sound when he flaps. He is built for flight. It is such a privilege to see him develop. His wings feel soft and delicate, and incredibly flexible and strong. Some people describe the wing as feeling similar to your eyelids. It is wonderful to think that one day he’ll be flying with the colony.

Louise and I wear a pair of long yellow welders gloves. These knitted Kevlar limbs make our forearams like a tree. Together, with the fleecy mama wraps, our washing line looks a little different at the moment.

Because, as written on the wing of our new zine:
Bats aren’t scary, they’re quite the opposite. They’re crucial, endemic pollinators and seed dispersers of our forests and woodlands. As we slumber, they fly across the skies in search of blossom and nectar. If there’s one thing scary in relation to them it would be that without them there are no forests, as we currently know them to be, and without the forests, there are no flying foxes and all the other life sustained within them.

Please look after our large temperate pteropid megabats so they can look after us all.

Cute and important. What a mix!

As ever, please contact Bev Brown of Bat Rescue Bayside if you find an injured bat.

Please note: you need to be a qualified, vaccinated carer to handle bats.

You may have noticed a few changes on Marginalia since your last visit. The typeface is Romie, a serif typeface “born from calligraphy”, designed by Margot Lévêque. And in the archives (by category, in the navigation) the Dance archives continue to spin and grow.

Image credit: Detail from Volume 05: Drawings of plants of New South Wales, TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s, compiled by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, acquired by the 13th Earl of Derby, in the collection of State Library NSW