Published October 2010
Green Tide
I stand in a busy foyer, with stairs going up and down. Paths cross, conversations spontaneous, hugs, laughter, people with tears, drunk larakins, the moved and unmoved make their way through the foyer. A city can be described as a folio of stories, a myriad of snail paths glistening in the moonlight. This foyer is a city. The art happening at the end of its halls is dynamic, original, expressive and important.
This issue takes us out of the foyer and into the street, down a narrow lane and into the rose gardens. This issue discusses the intersections of environment and art. It sees our art as an integral demonstration of our beliefs and how we live. The environmental concerns in front of us will not be solved by thumb twiddling. Art will not remain integral by existing in a silo. These are our concerns. As artists we are given the responsibility of discussing and directing conversation and experience in a manner that consumerism and capitalism cannot fathom.
This issue is dedicated to all the spontaneous flora that fights the good fight and remains optimistic. Greening the corners of our concrete centric arenas with gusto, much like our artists.
—Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris