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Fog Signals is our weekly wrap-up newsletter. A look back at the most fascinating and resonant articles from the past week.

South African photographer Zak van Biljon now lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland, outside some of the most famed and beautiful mountains in the world. 

Crimson red forests spill onto the frame, while magenta and purple mountains rise behind them. Glacial lakes retain their beautiful blue hues, but the rest of the landscapes are wildly transformed, just with the help of this film’s special ability to show us infrared color.

The series is called Modernising Nature, and we think his work is show quality, and would look amazing printed large on a wall. 

See more of van Biljon’s work on his website and Instagram. 

Explore more unexpected infrared destinations here. 📷

At Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles, artist Martin Wittfooth unveils Deus ex Terra, a series of 19 new oil paintings that honor nature, animals, and the cycles of the seasons.

The work marks a shift for Wittfooth. Once focused on scenes of environmental ruin, his vision now leans toward reverence and renewal.

In a smaller series titled Parallelism, Wittfooth explores natural symmetry. Circular panels show jellyfish echoing coral, octopus arms twining with blossoms, snails paired with ferns. 

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Want to see a really, really tiny house? This is supposedly the world’s smallest, but still packs a lot of livability into it.

Kristen Meyer’s meticulously arranged mandalas of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves are not just beautiful, they’re startlingly reminiscent of circuit boards, wiring schematics, and other artifacts of human technology. 

This unexpected parallel between the organic and the engineered is what makes her work so compelling.

Part of the fascination lies in the tension between medium and form. Flowers and plant matter are ephemeral, fragile, and subject to decay. Yet Meyer arranges them with the crispness of industrial design. 

See more of Meyer’s work on Instagram. Images used with artist’s permission.

Mandala art is some of our favorite. See more here and here.

🍄 Mushrooms can create their own wind.

Some species release water vapor that cools the air around them, generating tiny air currents strong enough to lift and disperse their spores. In other words, they don’t just wait for the breeze, they make one.