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7 Extinction Events ©2006, 7 x 7 x 3 inches. Cover: copper, etched in ferric chloride. Pages: Arches watercolor paper, collage, acrylics. Plastic dinosaur with a book in his chest. I cut the dinosaur with a jeweler’s saw and a mat knife, it is hollow inside. The front cover has an arm and a leg attached with nuts and bolts. The events are: impact, climate change, volcanism, gamma ray burst, plate tectonics, holocene extinction and death. That’s my personal death, an event on the magnitude of the extinction of dinosaurs for me. This one was inspired by my longing for Instruction Manual for the End. There is a blog post about this book here. Scroll down to see the pages.
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Inside front cover. I felt having endpapers was very important. The page on the left is etched copper.
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Title page.
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I got my extinction events from Wikipedia. I was limited to the ones I could show visually.
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Here the stars become snow falling.
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The Holocene is now. Most biologists believe we're in a mass extinction event. To show global warming visually, I chose an SUV, and then added an atomic bomb for drama.
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This event is my own personal death - the one I take personally.
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