Inspired by the shifting of seasons as spring arrives, we asked five guests to respond to the theme of transition, and organize an “exhibition” from our online collection. Nicole Archer explores the protean essence of the curtain while Jarret Earnest constructs a narrative of celestial transformation; Christian Nagler conjures the desert as a metaphor of possibility; Dushko Petrovich traces the graphic shifts of Emigre magazine; and Maria Popova poetically taps the elusive.