The Sun Rises Every Day (2024)
Zine_Cover: Color laser print on Newsprint / Content: B/W Laser print on printer paper / 1st print (September 2024) : 10 copies, 2nd print (September 2025) : 30 copies
The sun rises every day, yet we greet sunrises and sunsets with such wonder. We'll even give up our morning sleep to see the sunrise, especially when we're in a particular travel destination.
There are some things in life that seem so special. That rock that looked so unique on the trip can seem no different from any other rock in the garden the moment you bring it home.
My desire to hold onto everything, and the things that slip through my fingers like sand. Time, impressions, collectables, memories, thoughts. So which ones should we take with us despite everything, and which ones should we leave behind, accepting they were never truly ours?
This zine is based on thoughts gathered during the stay in Nida, Lithuania— an island with one side facing the sea and the other the dunes.
Near the coastal walking path around the island, a sign requested that the visitors leave all the sand from their shoes behind.
The words, telling us not to take the sand gathered in our shoes home but to leave it all here, suddenly struck me differently.
During the first print, I produced 10 copies; they were printed in the office at the same building where we stayed in Nida. The office is only opened for a limited time a day and is only usable when there’s a person working. So I had to seek chances to make this work.
The first copies were mostly handed to the people I went to Nida with.
*One copy, I gave it to Julita, whom I met during this school; she helped me to communicate with the people in the hospital in Klaipeda. 6 copies go to people who I went to Nida with from Khm. Karin, Shu, Amelie, Dudu, Theo, and Jeo. Another copy; I kept it on exMedia Lab’s bookshelf.
The second print was made for the participation in Between Books art book fair at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2025.
©JEONGAN CHOI 2025