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Pseudo is an ongoing semi-autobiographical writing project to be organized into zine-sized volumes. Diary-style entries record my perspective at the time of writing, yet are twisted or exaggerative in nature; questioning narration, and merging auto-biography with hoax.Pseudo evolves periodically, and when this change occurs, it splits itself up. Each volume takes on a slightly different theme, in its writing style or written content, and is dependent upon my own perspective.Pseudo is something I started in 2023 without knowing it yet.Pseudo is about pseudo, the suffix. Pseudoanalysis is the analysis of ordinary spaces in pointless observation: how to survive as pseudo. Pseudo is highly observant, desperate, an outsider with a need for facts; disappearance of the self in the face of objective reality; inability to join reality (delusion), faked delusion, attempted delusion; an attempt to know objective reality (futile, real), an attempt to record; depersonalized, split self, all-mind, no-extension.Pseudo is a "writing project", a notebook, a transcribed text in the form of a google doc, and not yet printed. One day, it will be printed.This section is a draft and under construction... Return another day.
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One Day I Fell in Reality
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Rynn Dziak (ZK) is a Chicago-based artist and undergraduate student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), mainly studying drawing and printmaking.
Born in Westchester, Illinois in 2003 with one hand on their face and the other holding a slight complex about suburbia, Rynn started attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 to pursue a BFA in Studio. In this interdisciplinary school, “I will plant one foot down in drawing and see where I can reach” Rynn declared, and so they stepped into architecture, back into drawing, then into printmaking, which really just turns back into drawing, and… Rynn Dziak draws. Rynn Dziak draws when they print, when they paint, when they write, when they draw. Rynn Dziak has realized that prior to SAIC, they never did much other than hold pens dipped in ink and stare ahead, head slightly tilted, slightly dipped.
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"I grapple, in my art I grapple a lot, I think.No matter at what, I'm always looking up and out; I'm always far away. And I think about why I'm so far, and I try to see if I can reach whatever I'm looking at, which I cannot, and so I respond to it, and in that I create something. The created thing is not there (up and out), but it's not here, either.So I'm always observing. I'm always investigating, but that's because I've always been an investigative person. These are quite crappy investigations, if you were to ask me. Art is as if you were to write a book, and at the end of the day, packed up your things and thought, 'Well, I like how it looks!' There isn't even an answer in the book, I respond, 'It's all up here,' and point to my head which I have locked away. It's incredibly stupid. It is a creation of books, and only that. The point? The point is, I fear, for me to eventually have enough of these incredibly stupid books to then point at, and this point will represent the fact that I had created books, and the fact that I had existed, and that all answers were missed by everyone, because it was locked up here, not there, and I was not there, I never was. And who the hell is watching me point at books?But there really is content, I speak too harshly. Industrial, the machine, the man-made, non-human... Urbanization, the differences in location... The blurring of space, time; what perception means, what visual means, what any aspect of anything ever means. And by 'means,' I mean: how it functions, an operation. I am investigating things after all, I do hold the information. It's there.If creation responds, sometimes a response is petty, it takes a stand, it goes against something. I am too shy to ever say what. I don't die on hills. I have a patch of grass, somewhere.'I am interested in representing nothing, and proving my own existence' is something I had written at some point in time. I used to say, when I was too young to know anything of importance, that my art was information sharing. My work is personal, but I'm not a personal person, which is the point (no finger included); personal by way of first-person (first-person-all). Yet, is all work personal? No, that question isn't real, I didn't ask that. 'Isn't everyone like that...' is just a statement everyone says... Well..."
ABOUT
Rynn Dziak (ZK) is a Chicago-based artist and undergraduate student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), mainly studying drawing and printmaking.
Born in Westchester, Illinois in 2003 with one hand on their face and the other holding a slight complex about suburbia, Rynn started attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 to pursue a BFA in Studio. In this interdisciplinary school, “I will plant one foot down in drawing and see where I can reach” Rynn declared, and so they stepped into architecture, back into drawing, then into printmaking, which really just turns back into drawing, and… Rynn Dziak draws. Rynn Dziak draws when they print, when they paint, when they write, when they draw. Rynn Dziak has realized that prior to SAIC, they never did much other than hold pens dipped in ink and stare ahead, head slightly tilted, slightly dipped.
furthermore...
"I grapple, in my art I grapple a lot, I think.No matter at what, I'm always looking up and out; I'm always far away. And I think about why I'm so far, and I try to see if I can reach whatever I'm looking at, which I cannot, and so I respond to it, and in that I create something. The created thing is not there (up and out), but it's not here, either.So I'm always observing. I'm always investigating, but that's because I've always been an investigative person. These are quite crappy investigations, if you were to ask me. Art is as if you were to write a book, and at the end of the day, packed up your things and thought, 'Well, I like how it looks!' There isn't even an answer in the book, I respond, 'It's all up here,' and point to my head which I have locked away. It's incredibly stupid. It is a creation of books, and only that. The point? The point is, I fear, for me to eventually have enough of these incredibly stupid books to then point at, and this point will represent the fact that I had created books, and the fact that I had existed, and that all answers were missed by everyone, because it was locked up here, not there, and I was not there, I never was. And who the hell is watching me point at books?But there really is content, I speak too harshly. Industrial, the machine, the man-made, non-human... Urbanization, the differences in location... The blurring of space, time; what perception means, what visual means, what any aspect of anything ever means. And by 'means,' I mean: how it functions, an operation. I am investigating things after all, I do hold the information. It's there.If creation responds, sometimes a response is petty, it takes a stand, it goes against something. I am too shy to ever say what. I don't die on hills. I have a patch of grass, somewhere.'I am interested in representing nothing, and proving my own existence' is something I had written at some point in time. I used to say, when I was too young to know anything of importance, that my art was information sharing. My work is personal, but I'm not a personal person, which is the point (no finger included); personal by way of first-person (first-person-all). Yet, is all work personal? No, that question isn't real, I didn't ask that. 'Isn't everyone like that...' is just a statement everyone says... Well..."
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b. 2003 Westchester, IL.EDUCATION
2026. BFA. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.GROUP EXHIBITION
2024. My Chicagos: SAIC Students Honor Georgia O’Keeffe. SITE Gallery. Chicago, IL.
2024. Two-Person Display. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
2023. Tiny Works. Fulton Street Collective. Chicago, IL
2023. Class Exhibition. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
2023. Art Bash. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.AWARDS
2025. Edward R. Ryerson Fellowship. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2022. Honors Merit Scholarship. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.PRE-COLLEGE WORK
2022. Illinois High School Art Exhibition: Senior Scholarship Exhibition. Bridgeport Art Center. Chicago, IL.
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. Annual Harper Area High School Art Show. Harper College. Palatine, IL.
2020, 2019. Illinois High School Art Exhibition: Northern Regional Art Exhibition. Bridgeport Art Center. Chicago, IL.2022. Department Award (representing Art). Schaumburg High School.
2022. Top Scholarship Awards Recipient. Illinois High School Art Exhibition.
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