The strange presence of absent beings - Annie Ernaux, The Years

<n>Heron Illustration</n>, a pencil drawing print by <n>Sam Scales</n>.

<n>Trajectories</n> by photographer <n>Dani Guindo</n>, captured in <n>Iceland</n>.

"Everything is change, he said, and everything is connected. Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away." — Louise Glück, The Denial of Death

A still from the 1983 film <n>Sans Soleil</n> by director <n>Chris Marker</n>.

<n>Pan Haowen</n> and <n>Wong Chunjin</n> for <n>i-D</n>, photographed by <n>Alexandra Leese</n> in collaboration with <n>ASAI</n>.

A young deer and a crow in a forest in Germany.

A portrait from <n>Yuan Yao</n>'s photographic series, <n>Nami</n>, documenting her friend's pregnancy in Japan.

I no longer use borders for my designs. Instead, I use 'Shadow Rings.'

One of the best things about it is that it doesn't get muddled with shadows and stays crisp.

A helpful tip is to create two shadow styles: one normal, and one with rings.

<n>Butterfly Fairies of the World</n>, an illustration by <n>Malina Dowling</n>.

Digital illustration <n>Little By Little Is Better Than Nothing At All</n> by <n>Satori</n>.

<n>Illusion - Day</n>, an illustration by artist <n>Toma Nguyễn</n>.

Mirrored sculptures from <n>The Predator project</n> by artist <n>Rob Mulholland</n> in a Scottish forest.

A prescribed burn in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Photo by <n>Jim Richardson</n>.

The <n>Yarra Yarra Lakes Nature Reserve</n> in Australia. Created by <n>Overview</n> with imagery from <n>Planet</n>.

Collage titled <n>Free</n> by artist <n>Jesse Treece</n>.

A still from the 1977 film <n>The Wishing Tree</n>, directed by <n>Tengiz Abuladze</n>.

A still of <n>Astrid Bergès-Frisbey</n> as Sofi in the 2014 film <n>I Origins</n> by <n>Mike Cahill</n>.

<n>Karin</n> (2020) by <n>Karoline Hjorth</n> and <n>Riitta Ikonen</n> from their series <n>Eyes as Big as Plates</n>.

A still from <n>Guy Gilles</n>'s 1965 <n>French New Wave</n> film <n>Love at Sea</n>.

A herder with a baby yak, photographed by <n>Kin Chan Coedel</n> for <n>Norlha</n>.

<n>Leaf fish</n>, a <n>vintage</n> <n>surrealist</n> <n>digital collage</n> by artist <n>Beto Val</n>, 2023.