Everythingisromantic

Zine, 2024
Washington, D.C., USA

When everything is romantic, you treasure the pain, the longing, and the unruliness of emotion. You yearn for love and cherish absence. You follow the stars and become engulfed by platitudes of affection.

This publication is a collection of reminders that every moment can be romantic, a sign to hold on to burning optimism with clinging fingers, and a vignette of fleeting, intense emotions, that dither in my mind and stain my worldview.

It describes the sweet intimacy and torture of loving through time and distance, using a backdrop of the romantic period of landscape painting and the catharsis of rothko’s brand of modernism. In the prose, there is promise in a message finding its way to another person, and the hope that the message finds them well.

Blaise Nettles