Happy Holidays !

Thank you for reading Seymour Magazine this year! We look forward to 2015 with joy and anticipation. Warm wishes from all of us to all of you.

For our year-end edition we thought you might like to meet the folks behind the scenes, so we’ve turned the tables on our current Seymour posse and asked them a few questions we usually ask our interviewees. Enjoy!

 
WILL KITSON – Managing Editor

If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

This is pushing the definition of a symbol slightly, but I’ll go for a spectrum. I like to imagine life existing on a plane, where we move gradually in and out of different states of being; not separated into definitive parameters or absolutes like black and white.

What are you currently passionate about? 

Drinking coffee in the shower … got a system.

Your 2014 in one word:

Unfinished

 

NORA LALLE – Project Coordinator

 
If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

Growing up in San Francisco shaped who I am. I have a small tattoo of the SF skyline on my arm that I designed and had done by a friend. It’s a personal symbol that represents me and ensures that I always have a piece of home with me.

What are you currently passionate about? 

Cooking! I’ve been working on my skills in the kitchen and trying out more complicated recipes. I’ve always loved food and it’s been fun researching ideas, tracking down ingredients and of course eating what I make.

Your 2014 in one word: 

Fluctuating

 

MICHAEL LANGAN – Columnist

If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

An open mouth. There’s so much going on in the world to speak about, but so much which can render one speechless, that it’s important to make the positive effort to try to articulate, otherwise it gets left to those who have no problem shouting. I’m reminded of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst of full of passionate intensity.”

What are you currently passionate about? 

Re-reading; stuff from my undergraduate degree over twenty years ago; books that have made an important impression on me in the past; things that I didn’t necessarily enjoy first time round but think that might have been my fault; things that I’d forgotten I’d even read… I think it’s interesting to step off the non-stop carousel of reading new work and consider yourself and how you may or may not have changed, in the light of those books that form your own core reading list.

Your 2014 in one word:

Seismic

 

EMELINE LORIC – Contributing Editor

If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

A comma, because this is where the possibilities lie.

What are you currently passionate about? 

The view I have from here.

Your 2014 in one word:

Timing

 

RYANN SUMMERS – Contributing Editor

If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

A prism. I’ve always been very interested in both light and change.

What are you currently passionate about? 

The Shakespeare & Co. bookshop, cats, pastries, questions.

Your 2014 in one word:

Leap

 

CARISSA TANTON – Associate Editor

If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

A circumpunct, said to represent the sun piercing through the darkness of night, or wisdom, illumination, and that creative spark of divine consciousness within.

What are you currently passionate about? 

I’m currently obsessed with collecting leaves, I can’t resist their beautiful colours at this time of year, and love to draw or photograph them. I pick them up and secure them safely between the pages of whichever book is in my bag, and receive many strange looks when they fall out whilst I’m reading on the metro. My father visited me recently and was amused when every book of mine he picked up he discovered a few leaves hidden inside, but once he’d seen my collection he became quite a passionate collector himself, and once home sent me a picture of some lovely ones he’d found beneath my Nana’s cherry tree.

Your 2014 in one word:

A journey. In many, many ways.

 

MELISSA UNGER – Founder & Creative Director

(Seymour Projects, SEYMOUR+ and Seymour Magazine)

If the universe inside you were to be contained in just one symbol, what would that symbol be?

A lightning bolt.

What are you currently passionate about? 

William Carlos Williams. I have just started re-reading his poetry and I am also discovering his prose for the first time through his book The Embodiment of Knowledge. I love that he was both a practicing doctor as well as a poet and great philosophical observer.

Your 2014 in one word:

Intense