The photographs in this issue are all from the waning days of 2024. Before the days of whatever it is you're living through now, there were seeds. There were hints. Future ironies and desperate harbingers. There were parakeets in coal mines and heads in sand. The before times, featured here, reveal and revel in the struggle between a hyper-ordered world and a hyper-chaotic one. Actually, not so much a struggle, but a takes two to tango scenario. Here's a keepsake, a snapshot from the last normal year.
This issue meanders, but not like a stream where waters flow from high to low, following a certain logic and arriving at a certain destination. This issue meanders like a fog, spreading itself over its well-known terrain, obscuring more than illuminating, leaving us to ponder our own quiet thoughts.