Museum of the Earth
Rock of Ages, Sands of Time is a series of paintings that serves as a visual metaphor for an immense period of time---an eon. It spans the 544 million years between the emergence of visible life on this planet and the present. Each one of these 544 panels represents the passage of a million years. Fossil flora and fauna make their appearance in chronological order, and all of the organisms are depicted at true scale. The panels were permanently installed at the Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY in 2003.
Rock of Ages, Sands of Time is a series of paintings that serves as a visual metaphor for an immense period of time---an eon. It spans the 544 million years between the emergence of visible life on this planet and the present. Each one of these 544 panels represents the passage of a million years. Fossil flora and fauna make their appearance in chronological order, and all of the organisms are depicted at true scale. The panels were permanently installed at the Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY in 2003.
Panel #48
11” x 11”
Ithaca, NY
Lobby
West wall
Each panel represents the passage of a million years
Detail of west wall
Each panel represents the passage of a million years
Panel #536
11” x 11”
Anomalocaris
11” x 11”
Private Collection
Sea lilies (crinoids)
11” x 11”
Private Collection
Panel #355
11” x 11”
Panels #224-223
11” x 22”
Panels #275-274
11” x 22”
