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CAMPUS AS CLASSROOM: ART AND SCIENCE

It finally fed
It Finally Fed, at Dawn
Goemaat, Laura M. (1986)

The Permanent Collection

Steel, Wood & Paper, Tar

69.5“ x 59“ x 67"

ARTISTS STATEMENT: 

SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT: 

  • Fossils provide critical evidence about extinct organisms, and allow biologists and geologists to trace evolutionary history
  • While finding fossils can be difficult, sometimes it's even harder to figure out what the organism looked like when it was alive (how-do-paleontologists-identify-fossils). This is particularly true when fossil organisms differ from organisms living today.
  • A great example of this problem are fossils from the burgess shale, a rock formation over 500 million years old that contains representatives of a wide range of organisms (https://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess/).
  • LOWER LEVEL FLOOR MAP: click here to see where other art pieces are installed on this floor of Science West.
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