Emergence #6
215 x 280 mm, 388 pages
California, US
Published annually since 2019
Executive editor: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Managing editor: Seana Quinn
Art director: Hannah Merriman
‘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.
On the Journal
At work with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee: ‘We released our first print edition, an annual, in September 2019. It pulls what we felt was the best work we published online from our first four issues into a print experience. It’s comprised not only of essays, interviews, poetry, and photography from those issues but also print adaptations of films, virtual reality, and multimedia experiences.’
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