Yusef Tothill & Contributors
Doeboys Community Press
2024
A publication exploring public spaces, textures, and ways of seeing.
This is the first collaborative and community based project under DOEBOYS Publishing, showcasing the ways in which various artists respond to and interact with the spaces they situate themselves in, in order to birth new ways of seeing, as well as create new uses for otherwise mundane surfaces and spaces.
Yusef Tothill
Doeboys Community Press
2023
God Bless Betsy: "a love letter to my friends" - is a window into the past months of my everyday life, documenting the people, places and spaces I've encountered and inhabited through both words and photos.
The book began as an a5 graphed paper sketchbook; and during a severe manic episode, l began documenting my thoughts and feelings in it. This was an especially freeing process, as up until that point I had been terrified of the thought of putting pen to paper: a fear instilled into me since secondary school.
Creative thrives in community-and this is something I felt should be the primary focus of this book, exploring my identity through the art, thoughts and expression of my friends rather than myself as an individual.