From the Editor

While lying alone on a beach back home, a thought crossed my mind. "If I died right now, everything leading up to this moment would be given weight. The lines around objects would sharpen, words spoken to me earlier would replay with a profound cadence. Past glances would be elongated, the relationships I've built would slot into place-no more doubt about the correctness, the beauty of it all." The beauty of life suddenly, knowingly, zapped out of existence would be almost too much to take.

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It's funny, I thought, how this meaningless moment will pass just like any other but in the right context, shoved up right beside death, it can mean everything. Life is simultaneously lightness and weight-it is what we make of it.

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I want to thank all of our contributing artists for showing us what they make of their lives, for allowing their personal stories to be crystallized in a blur. I hope you enjoy indulging in each of their pieces as much as I've enjoyed watching closely as they gently bloom to life.

Shir Ariya

Editor