KSB Magazine #5

Producing this magazine together helped us going through this challenging time. The regular meetings on Zoom, every Monday, made us feel as part of a bigger circle. Some of the content we could even produce together, as a shared project. We started a new cycle, one year after a few enthusiastic people met in our studio in Berlin with just an idea. This is already number five!  Over this year we shaped a magazine that features great European Kinbaku artists. And hence – it is just an art project. This magazine is not commercial project. Everyone who support us just contributes to the printing cost. We – the artists, the content creators – do not make any money with it. I like that fact. We don’t aim to get to 2000 pieces next year. We will not have an automatised fulfilment process, it is just Natasha or myself walking to the post office. And no – there will not be a PDF version for download. Actually, “Challenge” should have been the topic for this issue – but it vanished. “Transition” it became. Transition is what we go through all together, all the time. Life is change. Human nature is to adapt. We ourselves went through the period of personal challenge and transition over this year, as Natasha writes about in her piece “This too will pass: some thoughts on resilience”: