from the editor

n another late night as our team

worked to bring you this issue,
the Santa Fe River rushed
and the moon was red and
half full. In the midst of
our labors, the seasons had
moved swiftly by. Outside
two lilac trees swayed oddly
in the late spring wind. They’d
grown in opposite directions,
perhaps to reach sunlight, but
now they moved toward the street-
light between, as if touching hands
across a divide.
Something I’ve learned in working with the
people who contributed to this special issue of Trend
is that we never stop benefiting from the expansion Mabel Dodge Luhan, their work is part of a conversa-
of the curious networks that connect us. As sculptor tion, and if they do it well, we become part of it, too.
Tom Joyce muses, we originate from single-celled In telling their stories, Trend’s small team works
ancestors in the primordial sea, self-sufficient crea- for half a year before going to press. This time, we
tures able to reproduce by duplicating themselves bring you our arts-based summer issue along with
and dividing in half. Yet what drove those organisms this year’s Lookbook, a photo-story format that Trend
is what drives us still: the urge to expand, to differ- launched last winter. The constellation of talents
entiate and mix things up until we become another, in the making of this rare issue include contribut-
more complex entity. ing editors Nancy Zimmerman and Rena Distasio,
That’s how we evolved, and that is what creative copy chief Cyndi Wood, art director Janine Lehman
people seek to do, whether it’s a master chef start- (who creates the designs you’ve seen for 16 years
ing a new project by growing local roots or an artist now), associate graphic designer Jeanne Lambert,
creating work for the new biennial at SITE Santa Fe. marketing and publishing coordinator May Mandy
While one collector is obsessed by the designs of a Han, and the driving force behind us all, publisher
Hopi potter, other artists are impelled by each other, Cynthia Canyon.
and in the case of Meow Wolf—as chronicled by the In partnership with photographers and writers
images of Kate Russell—some are accomplishing the who do deep work with their subjects, often over
city’s most astonishing and successful collaborations the course of many months, we bring you visions of
yet. Even the creators who mostly work alone are con- individuals who remind us of something fundamen-
ASH HAYWOOD

nected by countless shifting threads to the ideas and tal: as we evolve ever onward from our origins, there
people, living and dead, who surround them. From is nothing separate about us now, and that is, after
the digital alchemy of Peter Sarkisian to the legacy of all, part of our art. —Christina Procter, Editor

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