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Notch Issue 001
November 2024
Issue 001: Potential Energy
At the root of each creative process is the mysterious stillness that precedes the conception of an idea, followed by the thrill of possibility. The moment in which a thousand futures fold into the present, neither true nor false.
While meditating on this shift from absence to presence–potential to kinetic–we discovered an inflection point that each artist has felt. It exists at the neck of an hourglass when ideas transform from the vague realm of the imaginary into something that can be shared in this world. The delightful metamorphosis that is invisible to all but the creator.
For this first issue, we asked our artists to meditate on the top half of the hourglass–the infinitude that potential energy holds before its whittling into reality.
seismic wave at 141.6412E, 38.9178N
(buried depth = 120m)
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(buried depth = 120m)
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