David Ellingsen

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Chicken-UnidentifiedSpecies

Chicken (unidentified species)

Edition of 5
Pigment ink on cotton rag from solarized Polaroid 55PN film negative
32x25 inches
Also editioned at 17x13 in.

Included in this project for its possible designation as the "Golden Spike" - or a marker that scientists can point to in future and say, "That was the start of the Anthropocene Epoch." In addition to the bones of the domestic chicken other proposed markers include concrete particles, remant plastics and nuclear dust.

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