Introducing Issue 13: Ornament
Ornament exists where purpose becomes uncertain. It is decoration, embellishment, excess: the supposedly superfluous made essential.
Issue 13 starts from the curiosity of this inner conflict within “ornament”, a tightly-wound paradox of objects we simultaneously hold and dismiss. Ornaments are relational, their meaning comes alive through context, but more specifically, culture. This issue foregrounds the ornament, and introduces the world around them through literary, artistic, poetic, and technological perspectives.
This edition feels especially meaningful to us: Adjacent has mostly lived online, and for Issue #13 we produced a limited physical run. For the launch event, we hosted a workshop where guests decorated their own print issue with beads.