Letter From the Editor

In literature, there is a device called beginning in media res. This is what they call when a story starts right in the middle. Instead of presenting the setting or characters, some books welcome us with a speech or an action. They don’t give us time to breathe and go straight to business. You can think of Maupassant’s Bel Ami, a novel that starts, with no contextualization, with the main character leaving the supermarket. In cinema, we could mention Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction that opens in the middle of a couple’s dialogue, or Fight Club by Fincher, in a more extreme example, as we see the character for the first time with a gun in his mouth.

Today, we have the beginning of All in Art Magazine. And in some sense, you are experiencing a beginning in media res. Of course you will argue with me that before, we didn’t exist. From this point on, we are something, our plot starts. But actually, our story goes way back. What you are reading and seeing in your little screen wasn’t born today. We aren’t beginning our story just now. Today is the result of months of preparation, of thinking, conceptualizing, writing, making mistakes, fixing them, learning, editing, researching and putting a lot of love in this project. All in all, there is no better way to describe our beginning. It is in the middle of action; appearing out of the blue in the middle of our individual stories; it is in media res.

Maybe, I can trace the starting point of the magazine to a boring rainy afternoon on February in my room. I remember the papers spread on my bed, the blankets all around and my laptop in front of me. I remember coming down the stairs running to tell my brother – who, at the time, was also my roommate – that “I have an idea!” Maybe, fellow art lovers, that is our beginning. Then, again, we can also argue that in reality, this idea has always been sitting in a corner of my mind, just waiting to be discovered. The important part is that I dusted this corner and an idea shone through. And what an idea… an art magazine.

And yes, you guessed right, dear reader, I was extremely bored when it came to me. The idea, I mean. This magazine was born out of boredom. But it quickly escalated; it blossomed.