Footnote No. 2

Footnote is a journal for artistic exchange. Each issue, we invite writers, photographers and artists to respond to a word, phrase or idea from a central text, forming a collective body of work that spans disciplines and approaches. Launching March 2026, the second issue centres around "The Merchant of Colours," an original fable by Booker Prize–winning author Sir Ben Okri. Okri's evocative story has in turn inspired a series of meditations on colour, its perception and our instinctive responses to it—forming a rich and unexpected dialogue between literature and visual art.