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The divine machine, the robotic entity, the wires that resemble veins and arteries, the plugs that resemble blood vessels.
Shaping Circuit was bittersweet: I kept thinking about the eternal looping of our stories, the way we write, create, move, speak etc. to keep ourselves within this loop we have created - the end is never the end. So, as my year as Framework’s editor comes to a close, I pass on the mantle to a previous contributor (and my dear friend) Eiko Nanri.
I speak to the circuit as a speculative reflection of how the immaterial transforms and transcends, unravelling through time, tumbling into cyberspace, not lost, but changed.
This issue became a way of tracing those connections: the quiet charge between artists and writers, the unseen energy that moves through a shared thought. The wires between our worlds, our bodies, our stories.
There were moments when the process itself felt like a live wire - ideas looping back, crossing paths, sparking something unexpected. Coding this issue felt like moulding together a body, something both biological and cyborgian at the same time: flesh and skin and bone, zeroes and ones, mycelium fronds, amniota, steel.
The works here hum with that same pulse: the slow build of connection, the flicker of resistance, the beautiful noise of interference.
Each piece is a point of contact, a reminder that nothing we make or feel exists in isolation.
Thank you to everyone who fed this current, who let their ideas travel through these pages: Harry Mäe, Nell Trotter, Soomin Jeong and Michelle Tsang. Your works were transcendent, speculative, experimental but altogether personal and familiar.
As you click through this issue, I hope you are aware that you are entering the loop. Let the cyber-static flow through you. Embed yourself into its code.
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— Yaz Meedin