Endangered Species , 2022
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Cyanotype on leaves, herbarium paper 29.2 x 41.9 cm

Climate change is everyday more evident, yet we are doing very little to change our lifestyle and the impact we are making into the world. Our habitat is changing, and life on Earth as we know is changing too. Just in Europe, 339 vascular plants and 131 trees have been classified as either extinct in the wild, regionally extinct, extinct, critically endangered, and endangered, as listed in the European Red List of Trees (1) and European Red List of Vascular Plants (2). The names of these plants and trees were written onto 20 digitally edited images of fossils plants taken at Bolca´s Fossil-Lagerstätten ypresiane (Eocene). These images were then transferred via cyanotype on leaves collected from the WWW members at various locations across Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Latvia, Spain, Isles of Scilly and Italy. A total of 130 nameless leaves, belonging to around 50 different species, have been mounted as specimens of an imaginary herbarium of forgotten, endangered plants. Their names unknown, the images and lists they carry almost unintelligible. Piece by piece, our world is disappearing, and what remains is just a collection for scientists to study.

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