
Reflections on an Impermanent World
Photograph from Perttu Saksa’s 2012 Echo, a series of fragile images of taxidermic primates captured into European museum archives from colonial Africa and Latin America. Untitled, 120 x 150 cm, Diasec. by Sam Mowe Over 98 percent of all species ever to live on earth are now extinct. Though some of this loss is to be expected as part of the natural cycle of evolution— in nature, change is constant; stasis is abnormal— there have also been moments of catastrophic change, when the diversity of life has plummeted so suddenly and dramatically that the rules of evolution no longer apply. … Continue reading Reflections on an Impermanent World