#11 March 2008 Rituals
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The settings and types that encompass the topic of "rituals" are too divergent to assemble into an editorially coherent issue. For that reason, and since we had already covered the quotidian aspect on other occasions, we decided to make this issue about the spiritual and the sacred, and have it play around with the esoteric and magical, while delving into the ethnic dimension and seeking inspiration from atavistic tradition.

Ethnicity, divinity, belief, custom, paganism, ceremony, idol, religion, object, symbol, offering, word, myth… Concepts from the ritual realm that aesthetically lead us to produce a mysterious issue, dark yet full of color, and whose content is heavy but offset by white backgrounds. An issue that in many places chooses not to explain things in favor of letting your imagination wander. And in the end, that free space is what is so striking to us, for we ourselves create our own ghosts.

Dutch designer and photographer Joachim Baan designed the cover of this issue as well as the eleven pages introducing each artist's content. The two works that we have chosen to include wholly on our website are the photo series by Txema Yeste Solemnity and Devotion and the two pages featuring Marian Bantjes' oil paintings on the full moon. Nine additional content selections can be viewed in their entirety by way of the flash movie at the top of this editorial. Also, in the "Authors" section we have reproduced the seven illustrations about wedding ceremonies in seven different cultures.