Mission:
Message in a BottleOur goal at Message in a Bottle is to rally artists as they crawl—walk—leap into the unknown. Their work is important. Therefore, it is our duty and privilege to share it with the world.
Like the castaway, we are driven to comb the beaches of our existence, to search for clues—for messages in bottles—to piece together whatever meaning the shipwreck has shattered. Our symbolic beaches may take different forms for different searchers: art, philosophy, theology, quantum mechanics, etc., but each is a response to the same predicament—that something is missing, that we don’t have all the answers, and that we are not whole without them. And even though we may never piece together all the answers, we search, nonetheless. To this end we establish this journal, as a forum where this search for meaning in its many forms may take place.
This forum is a public space for reveling in mystery, for celebrating artmaking, for—maybe, just maybe—encountering the occasional divine. We welcome parcels of poetry, dance displays, music, paintings and sketches and sculptures, and all manner of writing. Because art itself is a risky endeavor, full of unforeseen twists and turns as we pursue the inspiration of the muse, Message in a Bottle welcomes the peril inherent in the artistic process. To make art is to dance with the unknown.
May this Message in a Bottle ebb and flow with the mystery of the never-ceasing tide.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE EDITORS
Kimberly Bredberg, MFA
Walter Williams, PhD
Claire Sakelson, MA