What This Magazine Is

It is 2026, and the third issue of Houses & Art is finished. It contains photographs of spaces that hold their silence well. And it carries, somewhere between the pages, the particular quality of light that belongs to both the far north and the deep south — different in every way, and yet, somehow, looking for the same thing.

The theme of this issue is decay. Not as loss, but as evidence. Last summer, on an unexpected night out in Sicily, I walked into an exhibition by Carlo Arancio — and found him standing there. His photographs of old Sicilian buildings stopped me. Not because they were ruins, but because they were honest. Time had made its mark, and the mark was beautiful. That was the moment I knew what this issue had to be about.

From there, the issue found its own shape. Serdar Öner photographs southern Sweden with a stillness that makes you pause — nature reclaiming space, light falling on things that have been left alone. Mikaela Olovsdotter puts colour on canvas the way a painter does when they’ve looked at something long enough to feel it. Miroslav Tichy built his own camera from scraps, and made art anyway — proof that a creative mind finds no limits. And at Casa Militello, tradition is not a memory. It lives in the hands that pick olives from the trees, season after season.

The door isn’t closed. It’s still open. All the work is done — the editing, the layout, the long hours of getting it right — and the magazine is ready to be seen. I’m proud of what went into this issue. I hope it makes you stop, even for a moment, and look.

“The lost, once found, is not forgotten. It is honored by its presence.”

Anna Posa, Sicily 2026

Houses & Art 2026 is available here.