Flesh Love All
This issue’s cover star, Flesh Love All is a photo series by Japanese photographer Hal, where he vacuum seals families and couples in their home environment
The Fire
Looking at the ‘sickness’ that occurs in the environment, Louise Coghill’s photo series documents a fire ravaging a 25-year-old family home
Two Poems
Writer and eco-artist Amelia L. Williams magnifies insect, plant, and cell movements to explore the trials and successes of the body
Unanchored Line
The same forces that shaped the earth also shape Seana Reilly's imagery, which alludes to human efforts to understand, classify, mentally contain, and physically subdue the natural world
Becoming Beetles
“Once there was more song than birds, / and the birds did not mind because they had trees” – a new climate-focused poem by Tzy Jiun Tan.
Roots
“Sometimes, a tree can also die of heartbreak when its best friend dies” – a tender environmental prose poem by Tzy Jiun Tan.
The World is a Great and Perfect Animal
“Sometimes I imagine myself as the piece of her womb that made her crazy” – new in fiction, a haunting short story by Samantha Neugebauer written from the perspective of a sea urchin.
Uncontrollable
Malaysian artist Rooney Ong Jing Ren presents his series "Uncontrollable" about blind suffering and questioning the veils that blind us.
Hazed
“After we finished crying there was still a lot to do” – Hazed is a short collection of poetry on the total penetration of the palm oil industry in our daily life, as well as its oft unseen effects on animals, plants, and indigenous communities.
A Concert for Plastic Bottles
How can humans begin to befriend plastic? This piece stems from an assignment that involved creating a 5-minute concert where both humans and a mass of empty water bottles were considered part of the audience.