Where Light in Darkness Lies
Many thanks to Marcel Krueger and Anna Evans for including my work in their beautifully curated journal Elsewhere, The End of the World edition.
Elsewhere is a European journal of place dedicated to writing and visual art that explores the idea of place in all its forms. Included in End of the World are two of my paintings, Adventure and Where Light in Darkness Lies, alongside poetry and prose responding to the theme.
“By studying the media, not all of it fictional, of an anxious world, perhaps we will discover methods of alleviating our own anxieties as the world burns, or freezes, or is overrun by giant ants.” Marcel Krueger, Editor.
About:
Elsewhere is a non-commercial, online literary magazine dedicated to writing and visual art that explores the idea of place in all its forms, whether urban landscapes or abandoned edgelands, ancient pathways or industrial ruins, territories of the wild or reclaimed otherworldly spaces. Our main focus is on publishing writing from and about less-represented places, and writing in translation.
Founded in Berlin in 2015, Elsewhere is a journal with a European angle on place, that has published a diverse range of work from global writers and artists. Between 2015 and 2017 we also published five print editions of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place. The co-founders of Elsewhere are Paul Scraton and Julia Stone, and the editors are Anna Evans and Marcel Krueger.
At Elsewhere we publish works which foreground an attentiveness to place in all its diversity and complexity. The places we live and the places we imagine, the everyday and the unexpected, our connection to places, and the stories we tell about them. Journeys through the familiar we inhabit or the hidden stories and forgotten landscapes that exist alongside. We publish excursions, sketches, impressions, meditations and imagined journeys that drift through or linger in city suburbs, forests, riverbanks, mountains, flatlands, coastal regions, islands and borderlands. Accounts of vanishing neighbourhoods and disappearing habitats, in the process of transformation, destruction or adaptation. Places of belonging or the places we have left behind. Places of trespass and encounter, of discovery and loss. Places of memory, layers of history, where the past and present intertwine, folklore, myths and legends, family histories and hidden secrets. Stories of longing and displacement.