DAISYWORLD MAG (2020) has morphed into DAISYWORLD CAL (2025)
from a biannually printed magazine, with five issues stocked internationally, to a micro seasonal online calendar.
Relaunch, March 21.
DAISYWORLD CAL is an ongoing anthology1 from the sensuous DAISYWORLD library and desk of Zazie Stevens. Publishing 72 issues a year, DAISYWORLD CAL is a hymn to beauty, eulogizing the capriciousness of nature and all that blooms and is destined to die.
The ancient Japanese almanac of 72 seasons has historically provided a basis for social and artistic life. Particularly among the aristocracy whose seasonal associations influenced almost all major literary, artistic and design-based forms and gestures in Japan.
These micro seasons provide a map of time, marking the progress of the seasons by recording incremental changes in nature, for example ‘rotten grass becomes fireflies’ (June 11-15) or ‘plums turn yellow’ (June 16-20), demarcating different periods with descriptions that reflect the subtle seasonal changes.
DAISYWORLD CAL sends out a new issue every five days. Together, the separate issues form a new calendar, bursting with earthly delights and obscure natural phenomena, poetry from the garden, contemporary rituals and ancient recipes.
ANTHOLOGY; mid 17th century: via French or medieval Latin from Greek anthologia, from anthos ‘flower’ + -logia ‘collection’ (from legein ‘gather’). In Greek, the word originally denoted a collection of the ‘flowers’ of verse, i.e. small selection of the most beautiful poems or epigrams, by various authors.