Our Culture Partner for this issue, Radical Yes, was founded ten years ago to create, design and sell shoes in a way that radically reframed how the Australian shoe industry was operating at the time — small batches of flat shoes to encourage a life lived under the mantras of ‘little and often’ and ‘hasten slowly’. Life and business don’t have to move at a rapid pace. We don’t have to constantly chase productivity. We can enjoy little bursts of productivity or rest as often as we like. It’s the flow of this balance that inspires the Radical Yes line of products. We spoke with three local women who inspire us to live a life full to the brim of both creativity and rest.
All of Gerwyn Davies’ photographs are selfies. But instead the reflexive iPhone portraiture we’re accustomed to, Davies buries his own defining features in order to reveal ambiguous, imagined characters – creating art that feels like a gift from another world.
Driving the same road, that took me through the countryside to where it was I needed to be. The mystic, melodramatic and at times cliche. Sundays spent in the garden, pondering the next step. Cloudy, rosie and vivid.
You may recognise Elize’s name from the Triple J breakfast news reports, but what you probably don’t know is that for the past six and a half years, Elize has been documenting the lives of teenage girls in Australia, South Africa, and the United States.
I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough just to lie before you like a thing, shrewd and secretive.
