Catachresis

Catachresis

katəˈkriːsɪs – origin: Greek – κατάχρησις

n. a semantic misuse or error; the practice of adapting the nearest possible term 

{for something that does not exist}

Issue 1: elegy;

mourning, loss, vanishing objects

Elegy: Loss, Mourning and Vanishing Objects explores the possibilities and limitations of the elegiac mode. Moving beyond elegy as an expression of grief, this issue considers loss as a way of engaging with absence, disappearance, erosion, change, and failure.

The works gathered here reflect on the loss of individuals, places, languages, memories, structures, and feelings, asking how creative acts might respond to what is no longer present. Rather than relying on traditional consolatory structures, these pieces approach loss through uncertainty, fragmentation, and transformation, testing how elegy might be reimagined through form, method, and material.

This issue asks what an elegy can be — and how art might record, resist, or reconstitute the things that vanish.

Issue One is available as a physical copy to order, or can be read online.