Project

Closely Looking: Yourself, Your Earthkin

Land

Iceland

By closely examining a range of Earth’s natural phenomena, Closely Looking: Yourself, Your Earthkin explores how recognizing structural similarities between humans and other life forms can help us feel more connected to the many beings we share the planet with—and better understand our place within Earth’s wider web of life. Presented as an experimental form of data visualization and speculative system design, the project brings together images from across the natural world into a visual infographic. It highlights recurring shapes and patterns that appear across humans, their “Earthkin,” and the systems that sustain life, such as fractal structures and the Fibonacci sequence. The imagery spans diverse ecosystems and scales—from microscopic aquatic plankton and weather systems to fragments of the human body. Together, these motifs reveal how similar patterns emerge throughout nature.