Wonders van die Heelal ("Wonders of the Universe") is an editorial illustration project that translates dense scientific content, spanning immunology, climatology, and geology, into a surreal, richly symbolic visual world, making complex science accessible without oversimplifying it.

Each spread pairs a popular-science article with a large-scale illustration built around a central female figure, whose body and pose become a visual metaphor for the science being explained. On the cover, a figure lifts a cracked, cloud-wreathed planet skyward against a strange desert dotted with surreal, broccoli-like trees, establishing the collection's dreamlike, botanical visual language. Inside, a sleeping figure curled among giant pumpkin-like forms illustrates the article on breastfeeding and the infant microbiome, her posture and the nurturing, organic shapes around her echoing themes of growth and protection.

For the piece on ice ages, a figure reclines against a fractured, glowing globe, one hand reaching toward orbiting planetary models that trace glacial and interglacial cycles. The plate tectonics spread nests a figure directly inside a cutaway, glowing cross-section of the Earth, her form curled among fractured tectonic plates and rising volcanic smoke, visually collapsing the distance between body and planet.

Throughout, a consistent illustrative style, fine linework, a warm, muted palette, and recurring motifs of clouds, seed-pods, and planetary imagery, unifies four distinct scientific subjects into one coherent visual universe. Text and illustration were translated into Afrikaans, extending the project's reach as a science communication piece for Afrikaans-speaking readers, and demonstrating fluency in adapting technical, research-driven writing into a tone suited to a general audience.

Rather than illustrating science literally, the project treats the human body as a recurring symbolic vessel for planetary and biological processes, resulting in a body of work that is as conceptually ambitious as it is visually cohesive.