Let's consider the power of the prefix 'trans-': to go across, or beyond; to change in form or position. A promise of reform, a spell against stagnancy, an incantation for change. An act so powerfully encompassing that it ends up (trans)lating into (trans)itions. In relation, let's also consider how strangely human our tendency is, to crave constancy in a world regulated by shifts. We are beings of habit after all.

In knowing so, there resides wisdom in seeking out these (trans)formations, of intending to (trans)fer learnings. If it was not for this (trans)cendence in creativity, the fibres of creative correspondence wouldn't spin in their acumen to take form and dress ideas. Is this not an ambitious hybrid, a delightful (trans)ition in perspective? This week we tap into what it creatively means to go beyond.

The sections of the book 'About Face'—Transform, Transpose, Transcend, Transgress, and Transfigure—present it as an exploration of the queer movement's shifting objectives through LGBTQIA+ artists; three-time Oscar nominee Jack Fisk unpacks his transportive design of Scorsese's tale of transcultural hostility, 'Killers of the Flower Moon'; Rohit Raj Mehndiratta's 'Memorial to Socialist Modernity' analyses the transmutative act of demolition and the vestiges of urban artefacts they create.

The creative essence of 'trans-' as a prefix does not belong to singular ideas—it's free to get across concepts that connect and realise in joyful ways when left agile—only if we let it. What transformations await us?