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 Painting vanished species [1]

Isabella Kirkland, a painter based in California, usa, has created a series of 3-by-4-feet canvases, called Taxa, on a variety of species. The six paintings, each of which took about a year to create, memorialize species that have vanished from the planet during the ascent of humans; those that are finding new niches as humans spread plants and animals around the globe; those collected or harvested illegally or too aggressively; American species in decline; and

Publication Date: 
29/11/2007
Down to Earth [2]
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Endangered Species [3], Media [4], United States Of America (US) [5], India [6], Extinct Species [7]
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