Dreams Beyond Precious Ruins is an invitation, first and foremost. An invitation to poke at our canon and question what and who built it. Pick apart the bricks of it and announce the gaps in it, porous and not at all the most rock solid when we put it under the microscope. Or at least,…

I created it, at first, to distance my personal identity (Myra Salsabila Alwi) from my work (Dreams Beyond Precious Ruins) when I was looking for more contributors for edition 3 through an open call. I was bothered by how this publication is becoming synonymous with me, especially because I have other things I am excited…

I just realised that Substack is an easy way to have a newsletter, and it will be a nice platform to host my own writings about the project. I don’t really put my own words in the publications we have so far, except for the forewords. By having this substack, my voice can have a…

Ten of each, five reserved from each edition to give to the contributors. One of each edition is reserved for the archive, and the remaining four are to be circulated. Will print again in a greater amount if necessary, and it seems like it will be necessary.

We cannot talk about truth without talking about power. The master who holds the power dictates what is considered truthful by deciding what is precious enough to be archived and what among those archives are important enough to be shown. This is how the master built his house. This is how truth, or perhaps canon,…