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"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing" — Arundhati Roy
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Current Issue · 2026
ISSUE #2: MYTHOS
"Every renaissance begins with a shift in how human beings understand themselves" — Jim Palmer
Our latest issue Mythos explores how myths shape what we call sacred and remember. It explores the tension in our inherited narratives and reveals how myths become vessels for our moral and psychological orientation and with that comes a quiet dissonance: between what happened, what we believe happened, and what we long to become. It is within this tension that myths take form.
With this issue Mythos becomes embodied through art, poetry shared around firelight rituals, stories told in film and spread through memes. Alive, they shape our way of being and, like a virus, contaminate us; they carry themselves forward through culture, image, and memory.
"Myth is not the opposite of truth. It is truth's oldest language."
A glimpse inside
Eduard Valenta, Josef Maria Eder · 1896
- Sylvie Barbier
- Elegance Block
- Kevin Bowers
- Ganga Devi Braun
- Schuyler Brown
- Marlo Candìa
- Vladislav Chabanenko
- Sophie Charrois
- Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Primavera De Filippi
- Valerie Duvauchelle
- Elysian Emanaia
- Avi Brandon Finegold
- Oliver Hillenkamp
- Sam Hinds
- Cheryl Hsu
- Liam Kavanagh
- River Kenna
- Jote Lamar
- Jessica Libor
- Rosa Lewis
- Tany Liu Zhong
- Nathalie Nahai
- Guillaume Pascale
- Layman Pascal
- Jim Palmer
- Jérémy Pilain
- Ronja Polzin
- Max Pugh
- Rupert Read
- Mark Smith
- Jack Tezam
- Nick Todhunter
- Lucila Vairo
- Wojciech Węgrzyński
- Jonah Wilberg
- Lauren Wigmore
- Amanda Zamparo Franco
- Naeema Zarif
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The first edition explored the theme of Impermanence — gathering artists, writers, and philosophers whose work asks us to hold lightly what we love.
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