A number of submissions had connective tissue across people, place, and psyche that revealed a textural thread of collective up-ness, activation, and spun-out feelings. So I wanted to add to the site’s menu items a less endeared bedfellow and emotional stressor: cortisol.

Welcome to the Gala of Amygdala.

This is Margot Niederland’s take on TREPIDATION - to ‘tremble’ in Latin - in two parts. Assemblage & and Cigar Box, 2015 & 2021.

ANXIETY as a mythological siren. “This is called Siren Stirring Stardust. I feel inside out at night,” says Joshua Kight.

CONFLICTION is the emotional turmoil experienced as a person with an eating disorder, as felt by Chloe Thorburn.