Welcome to the debut digital edition of Nataal magazine. These new bite-sized issues are going to come regularly to our website and on Issuu, and each will be dedicated to our mood of the moment and ask our creative community to reflect upon it.
Issue one opens up to modern Romanticism in its myriad forms. We’ve all longed for the simple pleasures of being close to our nearest and dearest over the past year, so let’s stop to fully appreciate love, whether of the nostalgic, lustful, platonic or familial kind.
These six special stories draw on the ideals of Romanticism – with its emphasis on artistic imagination and unfettered emotion – to explore how different expressions of creativity can tap into that sense of joy, safety and intimacy found in being wrapped in another’s love. Time, then, to get all up in your feelings…
Love and hugs from Team Nataal x
