Manifest - Call for Works About Weather

WEATHER is a local phenomena. Distinct from climate, it is the word we use to describe the state of nature in our immediate vicinity, in a specific moment.

Weather is the data for projecting potential futures, calculated in chance. We forecast it as best we can to plan everything from agriculture, to travel, to how we dress in the morning. Famously mercurial, we have learned that while we still live vulnerable to its whims, its general trends stunningly react to us as well; we are very presently reaping the results of our effect on the planet in the form of re-shaped air currents and intensifying storms. Our relationship with weather is less about humanity living at the mercy of capricious, divine whim, and rather a form of co-existence with a vast and complex network of forces that still carry the power of blessing and judgment.

Aesthetically, intimately, weather is the…