In this fragile contemporary moment extinction of all species looms large as time is quickened by our own ebb and... Read More
In this fragile contemporary moment extinction of all species looms large as time is quickened by our own ebb and flow. Will the Earth one day travel the currents of the cosmos as a fossil of its former guise?
These vellum sculptures consider the trace migration of the eggs of the extinct Aepyornis Maximus, the Elephant Bird, from their native Madagascar to the Western coast of Australia. The fossilised, or ‘stone’ eggs of the giant bird travelled the currents of the Indian Ocean to reach Australia’s shores in the nineteenth century.
The use of Kangaroo vellum in the making of these works draws into focus the fragile future of endemic species to the Southern Land: and the planet at large.
This photographic series was taken in collaboration with Bonnie Robertson in Australia.