Saffa Khan - Into My Arms / In Our Arms
This beautiful print by Saffa Khan is not only the cover of the In Our Arms zine but also the inspiration for the final name for this zine and this project. Although I’d been working on this project for months, I couldn’t think of a name which wasn’t a) awful b) unclear c) cliched. I’d bought Saffa’s print and was staring it at for months in my bedroom when it all finally fell into place.
Her print was titled ‘Into My Arms’, inspired by Nick Cave’s song which then got stuck in my head, and then one day whilst literally staring at it, I had the idea to ever so slightly alter it to In Our Arms and make that the zine title. I then had to write to Saffa to explain my idea and beg her to go along with it because I had slightly fallen in love with the image and title for the zine and couldn’t bear to think of anything else.
In Our Arms.
A friend said the title felt like a communion and that seemed perfect.
To see more of Saffa’s work ( I highly recommend her ‘Caramel; Like Our Skin’ zine) go here: https://www.safka.co.uk