Created by Ana Van Pelt, featuring illustrations by Zosia Olenska on several pieces, the theme of this season's graphics was imagining a post apocalyptic ecotopia, and re-wilding of the Earth. Each graphic centers on themes or ideas of nature coming back into power over the Earth, hyper-mutated and evolved creatures, animism, and more.
All coordinates on the central hot stamp designs lead to locations among places with highest rates of reforestation in the world!
LOCATION: Valdivijos Drėgnieji Miškai, Chile
Río Los Cipreses National Reserve, Valdivian Temperate Forests.
LOCATION: Umbria, Italy
Umbria is the Truffle capitol of Italy! With the setting dominated by Mount Vettore, at 2,470 metres concealing the mysterious Lake Pilato, the panorama becomes an eerie whirl of plains and vertical rock faces. The suggestiveness of these surroundings led to its notoriety in the Middle Ages as a realm of necromancers, fairies and evil spirits.
LOCATION: Freetown-Fall River State Forest, Massachusetts, USA
The Freetown State Forest sits smack dab in the "Bridgewater Triangle," an area in southeastern Massachusetts swarming with paranormal activity—roaming specters, UFO encounters, and even Bigfoot sightings. Some believe that the forest's haunted history dates back to colonial times, when settlers purchased the land (sacred burial grounds included) from the Wampanoag Tribe. The transaction is said to have cursed the area, which has since been the site of satanic cult rituals and murders in the 1970s and 80s, as well as comparatively innocuous poltergeist and fireball sightings more recently.
LOCATION: Minicoy Island, India
Minicoy, locally known as Maliku, is an island in Lakshadweep, India. The ancient name of Maliku was Mahiladū meaning women's island. Minicoy islanders have long settled in the Nicobar Islands across the Bay of Bengal. These settlers regularly travelled back to Minicoy. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands had a reputation in the Maldives and Minicoy of being inhabited by cannibals, and so collectively the Andaman and Nicobar groups were called "Minikaa-raajje" by Minicoy and Maldive islanders. This meant "cannibal kingdom".
LOCATION: Turkey
Balık Gölü nature preserve, Turkey.
LOCATION: Sơn Trà peninsula, Vietnam
Sơn Trà is a beautiful peninsula with long, white sandy beaches, picturesque landscapes, and primeval forests.
LOCATION: Périgord, France // Périgord-Limousin Natural Regional Park
The Périgord black truffle is found in the south of France and is the most fragrant of all truffles. Tuber melanosporum is known around the world as the culinary diamond of the kitchen. Also referred to as the black winter truffle, or mostly commonly as the Perigord truffle, named after one of the regions in France where it is commonly collected. Perigord truffles are native to Europe but they are also successfully cultivated in other parts of the globe and appreciated for their unique and heady aroma. It is a bold truffle perfectly suited to winter dishes. Earthy with aromas that bring to mind fresh fallen snow and damp forests, with hints of molasses, chocolate and tobacco.
LOCATION: Romania // Hoia Baciu Forest, Transylvania
The Hoia Baciu Forest, is considered one of the most haunted places on the planet because of strange paranormal phenomena that is consistently reported.
LOCATION: Actaeon Islands, Australia
The Actaeon Islands are a small group of islands at the southern entrance to the D’Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and mainland Tasmania. Described as a botanical, zoological, ornithological, fisheries, geoheritage and maritime heritage wonderland. This area is home to some of the last easily accessible kelp forest.
