The two booklets below are very recent: Malgré la Vie, began a year ago nearly, but only was finished a few weeks ago. The second, Kafka and Sketches, is from this past month but started as a revolt against Malgré. It went in it’s own direction.
If you’d like a physical copy, you print one out yourself anywhere, or ask me and send me your address by email or Instagram DM. I hope to have a Risograph edition for Malgré before too long. I’ll keep you posted.
Colin Zimbleman
Some context regarding recent changes:
I've been working as a clinical psychologist for over 11 years now, all in Kyoto, Japan, plus a few extra as a pre and a post doc internist in an underserved area clinic in Oxnard, California. My website has indicated for over a year now that my practice has been on pause due to medical leave, and from the "Writings" in that section, there was the dreaded mention of cancer (stage 3 head and neck for those curious). And I spoke there of some of its impact.
In this radical year, the cancer has been both conquered and rapidly reemergent. Though declared cancer-free in June, by August, I discovered perplexing symptoms, and by October received the metastasis diagnosis. I've been pursuing both the standard of care treatments via my oncologist at the prefectural hospital—all the PET, MRI scans, etc. and the now decided treatment consisting for now of BNCT radiation followed up with surgical disection — as well as supplementary and alternative care, both via consultation and the taking of supplements.
That's coming next, but for now, I'm getting through the rough stages of hand to hand combat of radiation and surgery, with much help from my family, my partner, my friends, all who have proven their incredible perseverance and care through all of this. And this in turn, allows me to spend time pursuing other avenues, like drawing, making a 'zine or two, and painting.
It's time this website reflected some of these changes. I don't know where the work, where the career, where the next image will take us, but here's where we are now. Enjoy some of the writings, the two 'zines, and whatever might land in these pages. Wishing you love and light and strange shadows this winter.
“...
Don’t be afraid
to ask them questions!
Their bright faces,
which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds -
each one a new life! -
hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come
and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves,
the coarse roots in the earth
so uprightly burning.
”