What is language if not empowering? Thoughts that gain cloaks of verbal definition, experiences acknowledged in alphabets, emotions obtaining actuality through words; language makes it all possible - prophesising what could be, recording what has, and cementing what is.

In the delicate dance of syntax and semantics, we validate what makes us human. Does creativity have a lexicon of cognition? Do things exist sans articulation, through acts of creativity, wordless, ineffable, and infinite?

This week’s issue evinces creative proses—type designer Samar Maakaroun in ‘29 words with 29 letters,’ embraces the complexity of thinking in two languages; artist Scarlett Yang's practice broadens the language of material tactility; Morris Adjmi, an architect with a foundational language of romance with the New York street grid.

Perhaps it is evolution (or alchemy) when lexicons expose the calling to create that dwells within each of us.