In issue #132 of Tubelight Magazine, the editors invited artists and writers to reflect on mourning and temporariness: the end of creative partnerships, the dissolution of cultural spaces, and the quiet afterlife of long-term projects. What grows when certainty dies?

I grew up in the 1990s in a small city in northern Greece, in the strange optimism of an era shaped by European funds and the doom of the arrival of "hungry" immigrants from formerly socialist countries.