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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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The white tears of Taranaki

Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory. Sarah Hopkinson questions the price paid by an area dominated by monoculture.

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The men who meddled with nature

The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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  • Consecration of Sri Lakshmi by the Elephants of Directions. Gouache drawing.
  • Lakshmi being anointed by elephants. Chromolithograph.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Two elephants walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Stone elephants, Ming tombs, Nangking, Kiangsu province, China
  • Two elephants walking. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Chinese people washing three large, white elephants. Gouache painting.
  • Elephants drinking in a river in Sri Lanka, with men in turbans seated upon their backs. Watercolour by A. Nicholl, 18--.
  • Cambodia: elephants outside Angkor Wat. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
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