Merging Boundaries: Our Transnational World Can Be Found Here
Hi.
Just a reminder that the extended deadline for the series is TODAY. Which means you still have about three days to get it all in. 🙂
I made a decision to put some of the articles up on a beta site for now, as the beauty of the internet is that you can see work-in-progess as it morphs and changes. Issue one is very strong. I am very excited at what happenned with a little idea, and I hope that we can continue this project through time. I plan to have the beginnings of that in about a week to ten days.
Again, thank you for everyone who participated, I am sorry if I have not gotten back to you, as I am trying to get other things in my life in order as well. I am still editing, still chasing people up.
I have also decided to break the whole thing into themes, inspired by the Tate Modern (London) Curation. (Instead of period and styles, they have put the art into thematic categories like, “Dreams, Death, Home, etc.) Since the idea of the project is merging of boundaries, the usual categorization of countries, states, areas cannot be applied, so I must find a theme within each piece and put them together with similar ones. First I must decide on what those are since it’s the first issue and it will from there influence and inform what will come after, I decided it’s worth the time and effort to put as much thought into it as possible.
—Actually.. I decided as I made the site, I will put each piece up individually first and if the themes start forming I will group them after all of them have appeared. It will make my life easier… I keep changing my mind as I go along!—-
Every piece will see the light of day, I know it’s been months since some of you sent them in. But it’s all new, and I am starting from scratch. Thanks for your patience too!
Yan
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