After birth- to work or not to work

The birth edition,  Issue 02

 

 

Fluctuating hormones, physical changes as well as sleep deprivation are just a few of the twists and turns of the roller coaster that is motherhood. In the modern world, many neo-mothers are also faced with the decision of whether to go back to work or not. But how do they decide?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ecstasy Issue

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Knowing that this is a very short and precious window that her children will soon outgrow, makes her appreciate this time even more. She makes it a point to be there for each milestone and give her boys the necessary sense of belonging and foundation on which, ‘they can go and battle the world’.

 

Read the full article in our magazine – The birth edition

Text by: Maria Giulia Pace

Visuals: Justine Ellul

 

Duality of Ecstasy

Duality of Ecstasy

The Duality of Ecstasy captures the complexity of human emotion through mime and rhyme. The new short film from Maltese director Keith Albert Tedesco explores the extremes that elevate us and estrange us into ecstasy through a series of vignettes interwoven with French narrative.

The veiled world of curios collecting

The veiled world of curios collecting

I used to collect everything. If I found myself with two objects of the same nature, I would find myself wanting more of them. Ten or so years back I started cutting out the general collecting and focused more so on curiosities. I’ve always loved the layers of curios shelves, skulls, bottles, objects of nature naturally formed into beautiful objects. It’s also nice to have objects that have a story behind them.

Janus Head

Janus Head

We asked four people that each have a history with drug abuse to share their experience while in a rehab journey. We took the best and worst bits from these altered real-life experiences and put them through an AI image generator. A pair of images are generated for each subject depicting the ecstasy and aftermath from their recollections. How accurately does AI capture the sentiment that words are trying to convey?