Synaesthesia Magazine Atlas | Page 27

I Have Been Lying in a Small Hot Heap / Michele Lent Hirsch in bed for thirty hours. Though I don’t know that my father is about to die I do know that the body is a nuisance. A dreamy mansion on a hilltop with movie-star verandas but a terrifying nuisance, a shark that eats itself slowly or quickly but eats itself. It will. Mixed metaphors are never in vogue because we can’t balance the two at once. Cannot picture—what is this, a shark is a sea creature we fear and a Hollywood hill with a beautiful home has nothing to do with sharp teeth. Except when a person gets sick. My father’s body was a shark that devoured itself slowly. Mine is a shark that only looks like a mansion. Collaborative illustration Estefania Mondaca studied fine arts for five years at the University of Chile. She works with oils mainly, but also explores diverse media such as charcoal and collage. Gonzalo Navarro is an illustrator, sculptor, photographer, writer… thing-maker, based in New Zealand. He is also an award nominee author with his graphic novel Aotearoa Whispers. He works with different media, mainly ink and watercolours, and enjoys the magic of delivering a message without words.