Cæsura 2017: Ascent || Descent

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During a chaotic moment in history, the editors recognized the peaks and valleys our friends, families and communities were enduring. Whether ascending or descending we wanted the artists to pause (take a cæsura "||") and share their moment. So we called for their location. Like a trail map posted at a crossroad that has an arrow pointing and says, "you are here," we shared an arrow pointing at a dot with no map and asked, "you are where." The submitted art would declare the location. The beauty, challenge, and strangeness of this call, was that it had no theme. The artists, unbound of that constraint, shared with a wave of creative, insightful, graceful, and powerful poems. Accompanied by stunning, commanding, colorful, and playful art, the print and online versions of Ascent || Descent are beautiful examples of where we are.