Majestic Heritiera Fomes by Saniar Rahman RahulThe Knees of the Earth
When I was seven, my grandfather took me to the edge of the creek behind his house. He told me to watch the mud, to see how it breathed. I spent hours staring at the gnarled, wooden fingers pushing up through the silt, convinced they were the…
Snow-drops by Leanne LindsayThe Persistence of the Pale
Snowdrops possess a peculiar biological resilience; they often push their shoots through the frozen crust of the earth while the frost still holds the soil in a rigid, dormant grip. They do not wait for the warmth to arrive; they generate their…
The Weight of Sustenance
I usually find the glorification of food in images to be a tedious exercise in vanity. We are so quick to aestheticize the things that keep us alive, turning the basic necessity of fuel into a performance of color and texture. It feels like…