mystic eyes - the worlds of Jackie Morris

One of our favourite illustrators at wonder | wander | world is Jackie Morris, whose work we've loved ever since discovering The Snow Leopard in 2007.

It's a story of a mythical leopard who sings the world into being, illustrated with gorgeous art of the real-life snow leopard, a desperately endangered species. We were hooked!

The Ice Bear, 2011

Her art ranges from the brilliantly-observed realism of works like The Ice Bear and the White Fox, to whimsical fairytales straight from a child's imagination.

Tell Me A Dragon, 2009

In 2017 she collaborated with nature writer and poet Robert Macfarlane to produce The Lost Words, a large-format poetry book dedicated to words from the natural world which were removed from the Oxford Illustrated Children's Dictionary: acorn, dandelion, otter, and many others.

Her most recent book is a reissue of the 2015 Queen of the Sky, a real-life story about her friend rescuing and nursing an injured peregrine falcon in the Welsh countryside.

We look forward to more gorgeous stories woven by this talented craftswoman!

Heavenly Bodies at the Met Cloisters, 2018

The exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exploded onto the New York art and fashion scene when it appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018. The main exhibit (and its crowds of admirers) consumed the Medieval Galleries of the Met, but the monastic treasure trove at The Cloisters hosted a smaller, more one-to-one experience.

John Galliano for Dior

ancient civilizations | truth & myth

History truly is written by the winners which in most cases meant the invading hordes and conquerors. Digging up treasures from ancient civilizations testify to this fact.

Egyptian Thoth & Isis

Oftentimes the stories we hear retold countless times are the ones often believed as the most true. Until we dig up something fresh and discover how different things actually were then than how we believe them to have been.

generating other ways

Yet another prophetic call to arms from our young leaders - listen up folks!

Lyla June - August 1 at 4:11 PM

Alright, just gonna get up on my soap box real quick *clears throat*:

America is possibly the most primitive society on earth, not just on the planet, but throughout time. You see, just because I got an Apple watch on the wrist, does not mean I am advanced, when nearly all the rivers in my land are undrinkable, when my children are raised in homes made of carcinogenic materials, when the efficiency of my energy grid is less than 50%, when the vast majority of my society suffers from moderate to severe mental illness, and when the souls of my people are starving for any semblance of self-love.

Conversely, newer does not always mean better, and older does not always mean undesirable, contrary to what the tech industry would have us believe. Many ancient societies were further ahead of America, both in terms of social functionality and, yes, in terms of science and technology.

For instance, this culture depends on monocrop agriculture, while clear cutting forests carefully crafted by indigenous cultures for thousands of years - indicating a severe lack of understanding of genetics and of biodiversity as the foundation of thriving life.

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