Sacred Body Designs

a vastness of ocean

LiteratureLucien NoëlApril 8, 2024identity, nature, poetry

Postcards from the North

I ate oranges and didn’t know they tasted like sunset from Castle Hill.

LiteratureNicholas OsiowyApril 5, 2024poetry, nature, queensland

Let's pretend

On that Friday afternoon, we revisited those shy little girls that met for the first time, tangled hair from climbing trees and crayon smeared hands that reached out to hold, toothless grins whispering ‘Let’s pretend...’

ISSUE 09, ArtJustine HuSeptember 20, 2023art, girl, girlhood, photography, australia, nature, identity

New Self Wales

The Sydney sulk followed me to the country.

PlaceKate SaapAugust 26, 2023Australia, nature, animals, perspective, Australiana, self-reflection

Nabokov and his butterflies

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. – Vladimir Nabokov

CultureAlexandra HornerJune 3, 2023Vladimir Nabokov, butterflies, Literature, nature

19 Pictures of lichen that give me LIFE

It ain’t moss, it ain’t algae, it’s LICHEN!

ComedyPatrick McKenzieApril 1, 2023USU, USyd, STEM, botanic gardens, lichen, plants, nature, Kate Moss, algae, april foolz 23

The Moon

A comic.

ComedyNiamh RelihanNovember 16, 2022the moon, nature, feeling sad, dickface

The city as a garden of earthly delights

Although Australia’s natural landscape has been decimated by concrete and industry since colonisation, if you know where to look, the city remains a rich supermarket of edible delights.

RecessMae MilneNovember 16, 2022Sydney, nature, local, Inner West, food, Indigenous Australians, lemon myrtle, dandelions, mulberries, figs, foraging

The terrorising Haberfield fig tree

“Do you know what these trees do?”

PlaceAidan Elwig PollockOctober 18, 2022haunting, Australian gothic, gothic, eerie, trees, nature, the unknown, cannibalism