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Calling all artists and uncivilised art lovers! Submissions are now open for our twenty-eighth book, a special full-colour issue dedicated to the visual arts.

Third in this month's series on 'Hands and Tools', maker and core member of the Dark Mountain team Ava Osbiston discusses reworking castoff industrial materials to give them a new life, while recognizing how embedded we are in our modern age.

The final post for Our Dark Materials, series editor Caroline Ross speaks with artist and calligrapher Joumana Medlej about transformation, natural pigment and craft ancestors.