Editor’s Letter

Dear Reader,

With the academic year nearing its end, I look back on a productive and inspiring period for Expanded Field. Regardless of the difficulties our almost entirely new editorial board had to face, we were able to leave behind our biannual nature and publish four (!) substantial issues. We could not have done this without the remarkable artists and writers who have showered us with their breathtaking work. Thank you all for trusting us with your engaging submissions. I would also like to express my gratitude to both our new and recurring readers. I hope that you too can reflect on a positive past year, and now might even have the time to relax and unwind a little. Thank you for investing some of that well-deserved time in reading Expanded Field’s twelfth issue: Duality.

Duality is about contrast. It is about everything and anything yet about nothing at all. Featuring stories concerning human relations, the natural world, and the universe as a whole, Duality reveals to us how even the most opposing concepts are often intertwined. The pieces in this issue explore the sometimes seemingly rigid dichotomies between movement and stillness, nature and technology, and fantasy and truthfulness, and invite you to simultaneously celebrate and question their differences and resemblances. Experience duality in form through Connie Woodring’s “Time Heals All Wounds”, discover the parallels between human technology and the natural workings of our cosmos in Yvonne Roche-Harth’s “THE CONSTANT”, and unravel the fictionality of reality in Yuan Changming’s “Mindful Mindset”. I hope that they, together with the other pieces included in this issue, broaden your perception of what is, what is not, and what might (n)ever be.

Marije Klei

Editor in Chief