UNDERSKY

UNDERSKY is a future-historical recreation of Earth’s oceanic flora and fauna long after humanity has departed for the stars and left the ocean behind. Created using public-domain scientific illustrations brought back to life, the work stages mediated nature in the face of ecological loss, situated within immersive art’s legacy of scientific spectacle. 

Credits

Visual design by Tara Rose Morris

Concept by Tara Rose Morris and Graham Steinman

Image sources

Mori Yūzan, Hamonshū (1903) · Smithsonian Libraries via BHL

William Saville-Kent, The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893) · BHL

Louis Renard et al., Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes (1754) · BHL

Anna Atkins, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843) · New York Public Library Digital Collections

Paul Bartsch & Kumataro Ito, Notes and Descriptions from the Philippine Expedition (c. 1908) · BHL

Robert Falcon Scott et al., Natural History Reports, British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition (1910–13) · BHL

John Murray et al., The Depths of the Ocean (1912) · BHL

Special acknowledgments and thanks:

A Manybirds production

Thank you to the Center for Ocean Literacy, CSV, and MAPP for their support in developing this project.

A special thank you to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which makes literature on biodiversity available to the entire world.

As part of Lumière sur la relève 2026

A production of the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership