Ostracod Rising

Edition of 26

• • archival pigment prints
  • Accordion bound with printed washi
  • Housed in a portfolio with interior wrapper
  • 26 pages
  • 21.75” x 16.25” x 1” (approx. 34′ fully extended)

Ostracod Rising tells the story of Earth’s past from 104 million years in the future. Beginning with the formation of Earth in the Hadean Eon, each page factually describes a distinct period of time throughout the ages. It then moves from our current Holocene into an imaginary yet highly plausible future consisting of the Anthropocene, Benthoscene, Silerecene, and finally the Ostracocene. 

Each page’s timeline covers the emergence and extinction of species, changes in atmosphere and climate, geologic and oceanic events, and the occasional asteroid collision. Large watercolor images of small creatures dominate each page, alongside other elements including day length, atmospheric content, continental drift, and the distance to our slowly receding moon. 

A portfolio of book board is bound with luxurious Japanese Asahi book cloth in deep eggplant. An inner 4-flap wrapper holds the book. The wrapper is of heavy Asuka washi, printed with drawings of single-celled organisms. Lokta paper completes the inner lining of the portfolio.