Editorial From Transitions One 

Published in September 2011

Transitions is a forum for ideas celebrating crossings whether  universal, local, real or imaginary. From myth and fiction of sea voyages and descents to real crossings, we explore such themes as rites of passage, migrations and transformations in personal ways, and by turning back look forward to the living mythologies of which we are part. The  universal concepts of Migration, Home and Otherworld behind this year’s Triennial, A Million Miles from Home, which this journal supports, will like a wave unfurling, continue long after the Triennial.  

Departures and arrivals, losses and gains, transience and orientation, separations and unions all exist within the real geographical and allegorical ‘edgeness’ of Folkestone.  With boundaries, real or metaphorical, it has been described  as gateway and threshold, or remote frontier place of isolation, exile and displacement, two sides anyway we might see,  of the same coin. Folkestone is also ‘home’ as is well expressed by Strange Cargo’s Triennial publication Everywhere means something to Someone, and its harbour not only symbolic ‘haven’ is threshold that allows influence from the outside world as well as entrance into it.  Perfect template for the imagination its shoreline, cliff and open sea provoke wonder and awe.

In as much as there is change is also continuum. The wind in the wave that breaks on the shore in a dying crest is an energy which never dies. And if we go along with the Heraclitiani idea that creation is all in flux and you can’t step into the same waters twice, it is still the same river.  Continuum is in the movement which defines and transforms us as well as the elements,  migration an integral part of our humanity.  

This edition, as small attempt to fix the unfixable, explores the archetype of journeying through myth, psychology, personal account, story and poem. Made up of  three sections divided by  theme, its contrasting but overlapping layers should provide something for everyone. Transience need not be arbitrary. Enjoy its patina!

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