Acephala by Ernst Haeckel Corentin Sauvage joyful profusion that fills the

joyful profusion that fills the frame

This vintage Canada travel poster channels the confident graphic language of mid-century travel illustration — bold

and poetry — the balloon at once grand and absurd

It is a work about isolation and self-examination

governed by the conventions of the natural history plate

Acephala by Ernst Haeckel Corentin Sauvage joyful profusion that fills theErnst Haeckel turns the hidden geometry of bivalve mollusks into something closer to architecture than biology. In Acephala, shells are arranged with a taxonomist's rigor and a designer's eye, symmetrical, layered, and cut open in cross section to reveal their inner logic. The warm, aged tones of the paper root the composition in the natural history tradition, while the draftsmanship remains strikingly precise. Reproduced as an archival fine art