01 Supracellular
02 Fire in the Belly
03 Is Paddy Heneghan Dead?
04 Becoming Earth
Illustrations for Emergence Magazine- Four essays for the Elemental Series
A series of illustrations exploring the elemental forces that bind us to the more-than-human world.
Opening up to "a supracellular state," Sophie Strand uses her imagination to feel herself as part of the more-than-human: as river, as mycelial network, as the blood of a monarch butterfly.
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.
Ecosystem ecologist Liam Heneghan, keeping vigil by his father's bedside, glimpses how all life resides in the kingdom of decay.
Wandering among the ancient decomposing cedar trees of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wonders what they might teach us about the nature of our own afterlife.
These four illustrations were created for Emergence Magazine's Elemental Series — a collection of essays exploring the primal forces that shape our relationship with the living world. Each piece responds to a writer's meditation on earth, fire, decay, and transformation, weaving together the human and more-than-human in visual form.