Editor’s Note

Sara Goudarzi — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:50:58 +0000

There’s something about the beginning of a new time period—such as a new year or decade—that carries the promise of novel possibilities. What better time than now, in its second issue, for /One/ to present fresh talent, promising voices and colorful ideas?

We hope that art and literature can provide a much-needed diversion from the realities surrounding us, if only for a mere few moments. Through the innovations of /One/’s contributors, readers can also find some insight into what it means to be human–which, after all, is what compels us to make art. Individuals are often unable to fully comprehend large-scale human suffering. The artist helps us understand the larger narrative by sharing a specific story that we can relate to via our own experiences.

Thank you, readers, for giving the works of our contributors their deserved attention. We at /One/ wish you healthy and happy days in this new decade.

The editors
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Editor’s Note

Sara Goudarzi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:48:24 +0000

Artists and writers endure pressure to continuously achieve and often need to focus solely on their own goals. A couple of years after I started writing professionally, I began to crave a project that would allow me to broaden my focus and contribute to the community by sharing some highlights of work produced in creative fields.

Luckily, I found others who felt similarly and together we started /One/, a journal focused on art, literature, and ideas, with a spotlight on humanity—a topic that we soon realized involves everything from the desire of a man who has never left his hometown to escape the boundaries of ordinary life to a world traveler who loses a childhood friend. These images and words are the gracious contributions of artists and writers who have shared their work in a budding journal. It’s always been my belief and hope that the more one succeeds, the more benevolent one becomes. Our contributors exemplify this.

Thank you for reading,

Sara Goudarzi
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