ISSUE 11: ATMOSPHERE

FALL 2023

Issue 11 was generated on land, across six states and five countries, and in the air between 3,000 and 30,000 feet. It contains 18 essays presenting unexpected perspectives on the space between Earth and outer space accompanied by visual experiments attempting nonhuman dialogues with air. In these pages you will find the air making art, water making a building, earth making sound, trees marking time, clouds unmaking borders, atmosphere becoming philosophy, a planet regulating itself, there becoming herethen becoming now.

FULL Color | 11×15 IN. | 180 PAGES

“Air is far from empty. Our planet’s atmosphere is a dense stew that scientists are only beginning to understand. This organic brew contains viruses and bacteria and all manner of plant and animal life forms in an astonishing variety — caterpillars, spiders, aphids, butterflies, moths, beetles, mites and other invertebrates; plus countless seeds, spores and pollen, grains of fungi, algae, mosses, liverworts and flowering plants.”

—  David Lukas, AERIAL PLANKTON 

Contents:

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Letter from the Editor by Peter Mellgard  

Atmospheric Appearance interview with Tim Thompson

The Infinite Air by Peter Valente

The Subtle Humour by Bruce F. Murphy

How to Fly by Farida Amar

Aerial Plankton by David Lukas

On Aeromancy by Austin Wade Smith

A Widening Apron of Color and Sky by Ellen McGrath Smith

Blur Building by David Rothenberg

Les Pléiades by Miriam Simun

A Peculiar Atmosphere by Nils Gilman

Naming the Wind by David Lukas

The Spectacle by Hanna Mattes

Mythosphere by Arjun Ray

Cloud Transgression by The Truant School

Tree Rings and Climate by Harold C. Fritts

The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

Inventory of Air Tools by Farida Amar & Peter Mellgard

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Untitled (Elke) by Andreas Albrectsen 

Simulated Genesis by Jenica Heintzelman

Infinite Unknowables by Marizó Siller

Atmospheric Drawing 002 by Farida Amar

Flight Diagrams by Raphael Arar

Sea of Air by Lauren Lakin

Aerial Plankton Illustrations by Timothy Donald Morris

The Aerial Plankton Observation Tools by Krithi Nalla

Subtle Body by aliana mt

Mineral Matter II by Brooke Holm

Light Bending by Kemal Çilengir

Contact Zone (Level 1) by Miriam Simun

Breathless Horizons by Mariam Magsi

Altar Pneuma by Claire June Apana

Traveling Light, Atacama by Hanna Mattes

Hypersonic Cymatics by Tyler Hubby

Moon Tides by Raquel Natalicchio

Exchange by Makaya Tome & Meka Tome

Archeology of the Sky by Felipe Macia

Artificial Atmosphere by Jack X Proctor

Atmospheric Drawing 003 by Derek Evans & Farida Amar

ISSUE 10: Freedom

FALL 2022

Issue 10 presents a range of cultural transformations that address freedom as a state of mind, as a practice, as a human and more than human right, and as a site of critique and hope. It offers a capacious way to think about the world we share with each other and with other kinds of beings. 

FULL Color | 11×15 IN. | 180 PAGES

“As freedom fighters, we’ve got to become much like the jazz women and jazz men. Fluid and flexible and protean–open to a variety of different sources and perspectives.”

—  Cornel West, Freedom 

Contents:

Letter from the Editor by Kythe Heller (text) + Shelley Loheed (image)

Freedom by Cornel West (text) + Aliana mt (image)

The Monk and Her Seaside Dreams by Fanny Howe (text) + Lauren Lakin (image)

The Prison Abolitionist Imagination by Jackie Wang (text) + Raquel Natalicchio (image)

Transhumanist Cephalopod Evolution by Miriam Simun (text) + Vickie Vainionpää (image)

Bodies by Anya Yermakova (text) + Viktoria Raykova (image)

Monster on My Chest by Shireen Hamza (text) + Tyler Hubby (image)

A Syntactical Drip by Kristin Prevallet (text) + Jenica Heintzelman (image)

The Thunder Perfect Mind by Kythe Heller (text) + Meka Tome (image)

Hard Questions by Andrew McCarron, Sean Akerman (text) + Niko Sonnberger (image)

Urge to Escape by Autumn Palen (text) + Jeff Mark Leavitt (image)

Cultural Revolution by Peter Valente (text) + Ciara Zoe (image)

Ocean in a Drop by Celene Ibrahim (text) + Mariam Magsi (image)

No and Yes by Nadia Colburn (text) + Morgan Sorensen (image)

Stained Glass by Lina Feuerstein (text) + Ivan Moscovich (image)

The End of The World by Hanyong Jeong (text) + Kemal Çilengir (image)

Earth Sky by Ganavya Doraiswamy (text) + Jack X Proctor (image)

ISSUE 9: SUSTAINABILITY

WINTER 2022

In Issue 9, Sustainability, Forecast Journal presents a unique collection of work addressing anything that withstands the test of time, remains relevant, solves problems, creates legacy, and offers a capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings. 

FULL Color | 11×15 IN. | 125 PAGES

“Castleton Tower, a 400-foot freestanding monolith of Wingate Sandstone, presides over our valley like a guardian. Not a day goes by that I don’t orient myself to its striking presence.”

— Terry Tempest Williams, The Resonance of Stone 

Contents:

Letter from the Editor by Kythe Heller (text) + Ines Katamso (image)

The Resonance of Stone by Terry Tempest Williams (text) + Meka Tome (image)

Space Between Space by Prathima Muniyappa (text) + Lorrin Brubaker (image)

Ecosexuality and The Sublime: A Lover’s Perspective by Caroline Coxe (text) + Jack X Proctor (image)

As Told by Bison by Brooke Williams (text) + Sarah London (image)

Architects of Smoke by Char Miller (text) + Adam Patrick Daniel Hutsell (image)

Trans and BIPOC Advocate Mutual Aid for Pandemic Survival by Li Pallas (text) + Samantha Kelly (image)

How to Die a Green Death by Caylin Ellowitz (text) + Niko Sonnberger (image)

Fashion for the Anthropocene by Abigail Tate & Jessica Prasertsri (text) + Ashley Guo (image)

Green Conversion: Adaptive Reuse and Sustainable Development by Caylin Ellowitz (text) + Jeff Mark Leavitt (image)

Your Body Is Their Offering: Sacrificial Citizenship During COVID-19 by Tsering Say (text) + Kemal Çilengir (image)

Walking Backwards: Indigenous Futurism and Sacred Technologies by Kythe Heller (text) + Maranda Stelly (image)

A World Where Many Worlds Can Fit by Rodrigo Cáceres (text) + Tyler Hubby (image)

Escaping the White Cube by Jeff Mark Leavitt, Caroline Coxe (text) + Lauren Lakin (image)

Paleozoic Plate Tectonics by Katy Gurin (text) + Marizó Siller (image)

ISSUE 8: CONTEMPORARY FOLKLORE

FALL 2021

Issue 8, Contemporary Folklore, presents 14 distinct worlds drawn from oral tradition, family lore, and the imaginations of contributors. This is Forecast’s first issue of entirely fiction and poetry; as always, written pieces are accompanied by original visual art.

FULL Color | 11×15 IN. | 123 PAGES

“Outside, the dead ceased building. The dirty, bird-winged creatures began to make love, a listless scraping like lyre strings on copper.”

— Jelena Markovic, ereshkigal’s first visit

Contents:

Letter from the Editor by Anya Johnson (text) + Damian Gomes (image)

Willowview by Vanessa de Horsey (text) + Kemal Çilengir (image)

The Symposium of Drowning by Niko Sonnberger (text) + Riley Libansky (image)

The Carrier by Pete Helvey (text) + Meka Tome (image)

Ereshkigal’s First Visit by Jelena Markovic (image) + Viktoria Raykova (image)

The Pig Kill by Nicky Loomis (text) + Gianfranco Cioffi (image)

Firebird by Kythe Heller (text) + Marizó Siller (image)

Reborn Again by Daniel Smith (text) + Lorrin Brubaker (image)

Prepare this Place for Bed; Cul de Sac; Goodnight by Jessica Scicchitano (text) + Jack X Proctor (image)

Meeting In the Mangroves by Lynsey Saunders (text) + Niko Sonnberger (image)

Mirror, Mirror; Tribe; Kin; Clean by Elyse Cizek (text) + Nedda Afsari (image)

The Hedley Kow by Anya Johnson (text) + Tyler Hubby (image)

Man With a Parrot by Nicky Loomis (text) + Niko Sonnberger, Meka Tome, Lorrin Brubaker (image)

George the Raccoon by Ross Farrar (text) + Ashley Guo (image)

Amabiko by Kio Griffith (text) + Jeff Mark Leavitt (image)

The Romanian Inquisitor by m. ouse (text) + Tyler Hubby (image)