Vanished: A Chronicle of Loss and Discovery Across Half a Million Years is a cross-disciplinary project involving two visual artists, a philosopher, writer, volcanologist, and graphic designer. Collectively, the six collaborators explore four lost icons and consider how we assemble the past through fact, fiction, and myth. The results are an interconnected collection of new and historic photographs, design, illustrations, sculpture, sound, and writing. My role in this project involved exploring information
The infographics and display sought to provide context to the original tree by showing it at scale. We also explored the idea of myth further by finding new and interesting facts about the tree based on published scientific research. Such topics explored the estimated number of acorns and leaves the tree may have produced over it's lifetime, the amount of solar energy absorbed, and the weather extremes the tree was subject to. For each study, various experts were consulted with in order to obtain our best e
I was also put in charge of creating promotional materials for the show itself. Because of the diversity of subjects, and the multiple locations on campus a solution to create a grouping of four distinct posters and postcard mailers relating to the project was adopted.