Letter from the Editors
Dear Reader,
Melting as we are in the in the heat of the Northeast, the world stage has run amok and our eyes always seem to be trained on another disaster, and another’s disaster. The bombardment of crises through the lens of all media doubles, triples, then exponentially shatters to a galaxy of views, skews, opinions, and news. We are overwhelmed by trying to hold fast and follow word salad narratives and fractured lines of logic not meant to carry any water, as another disaster or disastrous narrative breaks through the fore seemingly intended to disrupt and distract and we forget what it was that we were trying to understand in the first place. Whose truth sews all this information together? Whose debris do we cling to for the world to make sense?
Daring to plumb the source of elemental forces simmering below the surface of information / confusion, and illusion seems these days to be the work of Artists. Looking into what cannot be seen for the truth of existence and translating this into manifestation is the great work. Every day that we live and breathe we, all of us, are translators daring to art an intentional act of carrying water.
Dear Reader, in LIT 40 we are proud to present to you a selection of clear-eyed madness’s and tiny truths from all over the globe delivered pot by post into the collective water. We are so grateful to you and all the artists in this issue who have shared their work with us.
