A New Chapter for 'Wise As'

Community announcement

This is somewhat of an official announcement: We are expanding our collection, rebranding our business and launching a new website. Wise As, an independent media and publishing business, will now be built around three areas close to our hearts and minds–Books, Magazine & Art.

BOOKS: Our first love, Willow the Wonderer, will remain a focus. We will continue our work on bringing Willow's adventures and wisdom to children all around the world. It's the readers who ultimately give books wings, so when and where you can, please tell everyone in your world about Willow the Wonderer.

MAGAZINE: Introducing Vitalis – a new literary, lifestyle, culture and current affairs magazine. Vitalis is Reeta's passion project. Born out of nostalgia, we are reviving the tradition of publishing serialised novels, short stories, long form editorial essays and illustrated magazine covers. Vitalis is designed to be an interactive, multimedia experience, free from algorithmic feeds–you choose what you want to read, listen or view. From profiling wholesome local eateries to sharing thoughtful travelogues, we cover the topics that add to the joie de vivre, whilst constructively critiquing culture, business and politics. An examined life is a well-lived life. Join us in the exploration.

ART: Introducing Gliitch – a contemporary art gallery showcasing works by Darren. Darren's art practice explores the tension and resolution between established artistic traditions and emerging digital technologies. His work is driven by a fascination with transformation: what happens when familiar forms, images and ideas are disrupted, and reassembled anew. He embraces both control and accident, allowing physical materials and digital processes to collide and produce unexpected possibilities. The resulting works occupy a space between the recognisable and the strange, the physical and the virtual, tradition and technological change. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, they invite us to look again, question perception and reconsider what we think we know. Glitch presents a practice in continual evolution, where experimentation becomes a way of exploring perception and possibility. Darren's premier exhibition – Porous – is now on.

We will continue to develop and refine Vitalis and Gliitch in weeks and months ahead. In the interim, we welcome you to visit our new website and let us know what you think. With thanks,

Reeta , Darren & Willow