The Polyphony
Seated on a slow train, the author reflects on its contrast of our fast-paced lives overloaded with online-stimulation. In Away in the Snowy Solitude, the reader is transported from an unpleasant past to uncertain future challenges. Neo’s narrative bridges the mind to the icy straight railroad, seeking serenity as he gets lulled by the snowflakes through his every step.
In Myanmar, while the pandemic along with military-coup has taken away opportunities from the youth, Moon (a once-4th-year dental student), managed to open a bakery in the middle of crisis. Political upheaval eventually forced her to close, but the experience has shaped her new identity which devoted for her self-freedom and the community she owed.
– diary entries of a tree and a person Words and Visuals by Jia Xuan Chok In my reality, trees and people both have their own ways of documenting life. I decided to take a third-person perspective and peek into their diary entries (don’t ever do that in real life), weaving their stories into a […]
去年の年末にじいちゃんの庭が「清水氏庭園」として国の登録記念物のうち「名勝地関係」に登録されることが決まったらしい。俺はそんな難しい名前で呼んだことはないし、これからも呼ぶことはないと思う。じいちゃんの庭は俺が生まれた時からあって、小さなころはそれのすごさなんて微塵も理解していなかった。
Home. A word that often evokes feelings of comfort when used in phrases like “it feels like home.” For me, home is Indonesia. But what if Indonesia doesn’t feel like home anymore, where it does not provide that sense of comfort that it normally does?
It all started exactly 4 years ago…..
What does coming back home after years of living in a foreign country feel like? Walk with Nguyen Manh Quoc Trung as he recalled his time in Vietnam, struggling with feeling like a stranger in his home country, which led to contemplation about label and identity.
The Polyphony