Emergence #6
Emergence Magazine is an online publication with an annual print edition.
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we look to emerging stories. In them we find the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Emergence Magazine is an editorially independent initiative of Kalliopeia Foundation. They are located on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people of present-day Marin County.
Issue #6:
‘Exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality’
The latest print edition of thick-set Emergence is as beautiful as ever, continuing its long-form exploration of our fractured relationship with our planet.
Themed ‘Seasons’, the sixth volume explores how a noticeable shift in the climate, coupled with overproduction under Western capitalism, has blurred familiar lines of delineation between Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, causing humans to lose touch with earth’s cyclical nature. Divided into three sections, ‘Requiem, Invitation and Celebration’, the issue brings together a carefully contemplated curation of haikus, essays, short stories and photography that each reflect upon our evolving relationship with the seasons, as well as the possibility of reconnection and how that might unfold.
Soft colour gradients are dispersed throughout, equating light split through a prism to nature expressing itself through ‘sacred rhythms’. In between, you’ll find contributions from award-winning voices: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee interviews the British conservationist and folk singer Sam Lee; writer Zoë Schlanger’s ‘Memory of Winter’ interweaves personal history and scientific fact, drawing a parallel between ecological renewal and queer reproduction; Kerri ní Dochartaigh offers a nuanced meditation on the humanness of holding a full spectrum of darkness and light within us; and photographer Bear Guerra documents Arizona’s fifth season.
