Editors Foreword: Scene & Heard Salutatory Issue in Print
Welcome
Editorial
“The opening words to Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities holds stark resemblance to our current era and, indeed, to the process of finally arriving to this point where I not only write to you, I can show you that Scene & Heard is now on paper and ink.
I find myself at a loss for words when I see what we have accomplished here, together. More than that, I am deeply grateful to all the artists and writers who have supported the Scene & Heard process from the very beginning.
Getting back to Dickens’ quote; the epochs, seasons, ages and times that Dickens speaks of are of time essence, where time transforms to timeless, where humanity progresses and digresses at equal pace to maintain an unspoken status quo.
Through every bit of forever, human experience has been expressed through words and art. Those expressions become immortalised and through them we speak in volume and volumes, of our past, present and future.
“Our expressions become timeless, and worthy of artistic archive.”
My sense is that the Scene & Heard is one of those archives; a channel through which artists and writers from every scene of life are acknowledged and able to gift our current era with expressions of their unique minds and hearts, through the best and worst of times.
Welcome to Scene & Heard!
Ayesha Talib
Creator and Directing Editor
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way”
-Charles Dickens-
