{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"polaris-magazine-issue03","title":"Issue03　Traveling the Borderland","description":"\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTraveling the Borderland - In an Era of Division and Disconnection \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe pervasive term of 2025 is \"division,\" keenly felt across the globe—from the U.S. election and international conflicts like Ukraine and Israel, to a growing sense of fracture even in Japan. Against this backdrop, and as the art and media world ponders its role, we believe our personal travel magazine must directly confront this division. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf we are to contribute, we must use the fundamental actions of travel—to walk, see, listen, and feel—to experience this phenomenon with our entire bodies. We ask: How does division arise? What form does it take? Can we truly intervene?\u003cbr\u003eThe title of polaris Issue 03 is “Traveling the Borderland.” We journeyed to remote, peripheral regions around the world—places situated at the borders between nations. There, we found division everywhere, notably affecting people pushed to the margins. These divides were both physical (territories, borders) and invisible (language, culture, values). We met individuals who actively confront and fight against these fractures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe offer their stories. While we didn't discover any clear solutions, these borderlands provided scenes and signs that subtly, yet surely, shifted our fundamental perspectives on the nature of division and disconnection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter01:Borderlands and Travel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1-1 Walking the Margins of America\/The U.S.A., Border Region\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1-2 La Gomera: What the Mist Remembers\/La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter02:Borderlands and Vanishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2-1 The Dry Years: What Was Really Lost in the Drought\/Putaendo, Chile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2-2 Sylvan Recollections\/Taimagura, Mt. Hayachine, Iwate, Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter03:Borderlands and Language\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3-1 Threads of Code: The Programming Language Prāsa and the Revival of Telugu\/South India\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3-2 Searching for the REAL Form\/Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter04:Borderlands and Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4-1 Our Co-Blind: Care for the Visually Impared and Social Change in the Northern Philipines\/Baguio,Philipines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4-2 SESSiON: What Can Independent Magazines Do in an Age of Fakeness and Disconnection\/Kamakura, Japan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u0026amp;English \u003cbr\u003eSize: 257mm × 345mm \u003cbr\u003ePage: 136p \u003cbr\u003eColor:All 4C \u003cbr\u003ePrinted in Japan \u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-4-9912793-2-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"polaris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53257926115661,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/2676\/6413\/files\/polaris_03_1.png?v=1769614787"},{"product_id":"issue02-awe","title":"Issue02　Awe","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAwe \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Days Filled with Wonder, Days Full of Hope. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe theme of our latest issue is 'awe'. We collected narratives of awe from people all over the world to explore its meaning and possibilities from multiple perspectives. We have included a prison music label in London, a charismatic rapper in Bhutan, the British street paper THE BIG ISSUE, folktales from Tono in Iwate Prefecture, documenta15, an arts festival in Germany, and young artists from the Ukraine. \u003cbr\u003eAwe is recognised by many as a feeling of fear towards the immensity of nature and the divine. Through our collection of narratives, we reimagine them as an opportunity to open our hearts and minds to the admiration, hope and unknown events in our daily lives and to find deeper meaning in life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-path-to-node=\"3,0,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3,0,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e001 Editor’s Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e002 Lyrics for Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e003 THE LITTLE BIG ISSUE UK:\u003c\/b\u003e The Future of Street News, via The Big Issue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,3,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e004 Ephemeral Greatness\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e005 Iwate, the Last Frontier:\u003c\/b\u003e Tono Monogatari — The Boundary Between Life and Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,5,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e006 The Dark Peaks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,6,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e007 Solomiya:\u003c\/b\u003e Stories of Ukrainian Youth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3,7,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e008 documenta 15 — \"No Art, Make Friends.\"\u003c\/b\u003e The Challenge of Artist Takashi Kuribayashi and the International Art Exhibition Documenta\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"polaris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53258293772621,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/2676\/6413\/files\/Polaris_2_KV.jpg?v=1769624332"}],"url":"https:\/\/polaris-9794.myshopify.com\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"polaris","version":"1.0","type":"link"}