JADE&COMPASS is a US-based journal mapping art at the edge of memory, ruin, and renewal.
From Shadow to Threshold
Afterlife traces what lingers between absence and return
United States — August 27, 2025 – JADE&COMPASS, a literary and arts journal devoted to mapping memory, ruin, and renewal, features Afterlife by Sillygoose in its much-anticipated Issue No. 2: True North. This issue orients itself toward survival and direction, tracing how memory imprints itself across landscapes both internal and external.
The Piece
About the Work
Afterlife is a quiet meditation on thresholds where endings and beginnings overlap. The piece holds loss and return in the same frame, using restraint, negative space, and subtle texture to let meaning surface slowly, almost imperceptibly. It doesn’t seek resolution. Instead, it invites stillness: a compass set gently in uncertain weather.
The Voice
“Afterlife is less about endings and more about thresholds what we see when we stand inside loss and still face the world beyond.”
— Sillygoose
The Buzz
Cultural Relevance
JADE&COMPASS has become a space for resonance and inquiry, curating works that hold fragile tensions without rushing to smooth them over. Featuring Afterlife affirms the role of art in carrying grief and persistence together not diminished, not romanticized, but opened as a site for recognition and reflection.
Its latest issue, True North, is oriented toward direction in disorientation: works that serve as anchors, compasses, or faint signals across shifting terrain. Within this map, Afterlife endures as a reminder of thresholds unresolved, yet persistent quiet markers that guide us even when certainty slips away.
Publication Notes
Key publication details are outlined below.
Publication Details
Title: True North
Organizer: JADE&COMPASS
Location: Northern California
Publication Date: August 28, 2025
Artwork Information
Featured Work: Afterlife
Style: Contemporary, Conceptual
Medium: Photography
Focus: Memory, Ruin, Renewal
Access & Credits
Venue: Digital Journal
Issue: No. 2 — Summer 2025 Release
Availability: Digital Edition Available
Website:www.jadeandcompass.com
In the Headlines
Who reads it. Where it’s seen.
- Distributed internationally as a digital journal
- Readership includes artists, curators, academics, and contemporary art audiences
- Featured in JADE&COMPASS Official Issue No. 2 launch and contributor spotlight
This recognition underscores the journal’s role in positioning contemporary art within landscapes of memory and renewal.