"The past is often experienced through artifacts. With this in mind, a print magazine is among the ultimate forms of preservation: a compendium of musings, art, news, and more collected in an object that fits neatly in your hands and has the potential to exist for decades. It's a reminder that editorial teams are simply stewards of something greater: a piece of anthropological history and a reflection of a nuanced, complicated, and entirely worthwhile conversation that continues to unfold."
"Prior to my arrival, the team set up long folding tables in our warehouse space and sorted through meticulously organized boxes, selecting one each of more than 300 (!) issues and displaying them face-up in chronological order on the tables. The result was an at-a-glance visualization of several decades of yoga coverage-essentially, an overview of yoga's unfolding in the West."
A print magazine functions as a durable artifact that compiles musings, art, news, and more into an object capable of lasting for decades. A chronological display of over 300 issues created an at-a-glance visualization of yoga's unfolding in the West. Sifting through fifty years of issues reveals shifts in how yoga, philosophy, and magazine craft are presented and understood. The process of curating back issues is humbling and highlights the role of editorial teams as stewards of cultural and anthropological history. Archival review exposes recurring editorial challenges, including how to translate the experiential and expansive nature of yoga into focused, meaningful print pieces. Careful preservation and presentation of print issues provide a tangible record of an evolving, nuanced conversation around practice and culture.
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