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New Suns: To Build Beyond

Issue 11 explores artists' relationships to worldbuilding. Featuring contributors Hai-Wen Lin, Jared Brown, Jonni Peppers, Lydia Cheshewalla, Selina Martinez, and Val Jeanty.

Two women walk through the rubble of an abandoned building with no roof, empty windows, and one wall missing. They are framed in front of tall bushes which are growing in the center of the structure.

Selina Martinez and Rene Corella at Estacion Lencho in Sonora, Mexico.

Photo by Elexus Lopez.

Author -New Suns editors Date -09.24.2024

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We invited artists to deepen and expand our understanding of worldbuilding: What materials and languages do they use in that endeavor and why? What world are they after and how are they trying to get there?

Whether working in sound, animation, fashion design, literature, architecture, or ephemeral installation, each contributor in To Build Beyond constructs from a place of hope and aspiration. They see both the pain and potential of this present moment on Earth and offer moments of respite, repair, and release through their practices. From them we learn to embrace the local: our bodies, our geographies, our communities. From these sources of knowledge, we have the resources to sustain ourselves in the long run, if we only attune to them more readily.