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Art for the Sixth Extinction
The Shards Project
For the last 6 years, Earth Tribe TV, has collaborated with WomanKraft Art Center (Tucson, AZ), to create
“The Shards Project”.
Each year clay shards (see photo) are created by people of all ages, The names of Earth’s life forms, extinct or highly endangered, are inscribed on clay, fired, and taken to a memorial in view of Wheeler Peak in the Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. (see photo below) The shards are laid beneath this mountain because it houses the planet’s oldest creatures, the Bristlecone Pines. One tree was needlessly killed in 1964 to determine its age. Dendochronology proved its age to be over 5,000 years old.
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