Editors' Note
In a tropical city, it is impossible not to be reminded that to be alive is to feel. Singapore assails your senses with heat, colour and flavour. We Are A Website believes that art and literature should make you feel - with the five senses you learned about in school and some others, too; some you didn’t even know you had.
Start by feasting your eyes on the green pinafores in Michaela Anchan’s photography and words, before savouring the flavours of Gerline Lim’s poems. Hark the imperatives of Verena Tay’s verse. Allow Paul Beckman’s flash fiction to punch you in the gut.
Let it get complicated when Max Pasakorn passes you a “gulp of waft” and David Wong Hsien Ming asks you to “whisper heat”. Embrace the synaesthesia, expand your senses. You know that feeling of familiarity and strangeness at the same time? That’s the sense of the unheimlich - the "uncanny" - and you can find it in Dan Tan’s poetry.
There is no limit to the sense of imagination; Trivia Goh’s drawings will let yours take flight. But fear not, you won’t float away. Deborah Chow’s poems will reconnect you to a sense of place, and, Jacqueline Goh’s 1960s letter press, to a sense of time. Judith Tse’s images will remind you of the sense of being, its inexorable matter and volume and shape.
Hold on to that feeling when you finally get to Nicole Yeo’s short story about that trickiest of senses, one that, perhaps, we can only define when it is gone: our sense of love.
Thank you for reading and a heartfelt warm thank you to all our contributors.
The We Are A Website Team
Singapore/London 2017
Start by feasting your eyes on the green pinafores in Michaela Anchan’s photography and words, before savouring the flavours of Gerline Lim’s poems. Hark the imperatives of Verena Tay’s verse. Allow Paul Beckman’s flash fiction to punch you in the gut.
Let it get complicated when Max Pasakorn passes you a “gulp of waft” and David Wong Hsien Ming asks you to “whisper heat”. Embrace the synaesthesia, expand your senses. You know that feeling of familiarity and strangeness at the same time? That’s the sense of the unheimlich - the "uncanny" - and you can find it in Dan Tan’s poetry.
There is no limit to the sense of imagination; Trivia Goh’s drawings will let yours take flight. But fear not, you won’t float away. Deborah Chow’s poems will reconnect you to a sense of place, and, Jacqueline Goh’s 1960s letter press, to a sense of time. Judith Tse’s images will remind you of the sense of being, its inexorable matter and volume and shape.
Hold on to that feeling when you finally get to Nicole Yeo’s short story about that trickiest of senses, one that, perhaps, we can only define when it is gone: our sense of love.
Thank you for reading and a heartfelt warm thank you to all our contributors.
The We Are A Website Team
Singapore/London 2017
