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7 November 1 2001 bluetyger main issue 7 intro editorial about this magazine Edmund Wu photos John W. Gardner HandMade in America Coldwater Fall Fair Creemore Ontario Falldown Way Past Midnight Editor: William J. Gibson email to the editor Made in Canada |
editorialI have just moved and moving is the end of one place and the start of another. Although Mr. Eliot would have us believe that our end is in our beginning. The war is around us and the lethalness of an envelope and a stamp have never been more real and surreal than they are now. Life is going to continue despite terrorism. Art in a time of war is a curious commodity. The process of art is what makes an artist breathe. The product is not as important as their attempt to create, to take in the new and make something with it that never existed before. The new, part old and part present and part future. The flowing river of memory and perception of the moment just before this one.The kids walk to school and kick the leaves. I used to walk to school and imagined that the snow banks growing out of the grey street and sidewalk curves were the islands of the high Arctic and I was flying over them. I would kick off part of the ice from the snow bank and kick that piece of winter along. Although I had been warned about putting a hole in the toe of my boot. It seemed like the only way to propel myself home. |
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