Each of us has a unique perspective; it is w i d e n e d when we view the lives of others.
Pantoscope is an exploratory project based around a central question: what is it like to be another? Through interviews, prose, poetry, book reviews, and articles, London-based writer Anushka Shah takes us on a journey that is profoundly personal and interpersonal.
As a speaker of several Asian languages, a historian, and a curator with a global career spanning roles at world-renowned institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Smithsonian, Thomas Wide is certainly not indifferent to difference.
Wide travelled to Washington D.C. every few months to bring Afghan art to the American capital… “I saw, multiple times, people having really surprising experiences… I felt like we had the chance to change people’s minds.”
I speak with the viral indie pop artist about his new and addictive “unlikely mash-ups”, celebrating an era of Facebook swag, and the simultaneous appeal and loneliness of cities like London and New York.
“I’m hoping that rather than trying to slot into an existing genre or type of music, the fans I accumulate are exclusively people who are interested in the experiment.”
My friend Caroline and I find ourselves caught in an unexpected snowstorm after manifesting a weekend of snow in Edinburgh — only one out of a strange list of birthday coincidences.
Caroline buys postcards to send home and writes them as we wait at the station: ‘Det had snöat (!!) och varit så stämningsfullt här uppe’, which she translates to ‘it snowed and it was feelingful’.
My friend Victoria Reeser shares lessons she has learnt through her personal search for purpose, a journey that has taken her from home-schooling in Philadelphia to graduate school in the UK and discovering a passion for painting.
What am I doing? What should I do in the interim period between being where I am (point A) and where I might want to be (point B)? And what if I don’t know exactly what point B consists of, or whether, how, and when it might be achieved?
