Visions of the Apocalypse
When the Chicxulub Asteroid hit the Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago, it drove more than 90% of all animal life on earth to extinction. Industrialisation, globalization and the free running capitalism led us to a very similar extinction rate today. To raise awareness and to celebrate the genre of paleoart, I reached out to artists all across the globe for this unique paleoart collection.
(background by Natalia Jagielska, twitter: @wrycritic)
The Idea
"Humans are currently causing the greatest global extinction of species since the disappearance of the dinosaurs."
- Eberhard Brandes, 2016
The sixth great mass extinction of our planet has already begun:
The current loss of species exceeds the level of the usual background extinction by 1,000 to 10,000 times.
Last time this happened 66 million years ago.
„Science and speculation are
happy bedfellows, so long as we
remain grounded in our
speculations, and so long as we
state the core evidence we have in the first place.“
- Dr. Darren Naish, 2012
This K-Pg extinction event has been interpreted in paleoart for the last 20 years. The incident gained more attention in recent times, even to the point that certain pieces of K-Pg Art have become a meme among paleoartists and paleo-enthusiasts.
"If we do not switch to clean ecological Agriculture now, we cannot predict if in ten or twenty
Years, any of the current Bird population will be left."
- Peter Berthold, 2019
To collect the most interesting and visually stunning pieces of this kind and to raise awareness of the current mass extinction, I reached out to over 50 paleoartists from all across the globe. Together we gather brilliant illustrations and jaw-droppingly fantastic artworks of this catastrophic event.
(art by Yusik Choi)
An International Paleoart Project
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The Apocalypse Dissected
The Calm before the storm
We visit the minutes and seconds before the impact. These are the moments of the thriving Cretaceous, right before life on earth changed forever.
The Apocalypse
The impact itself exceeds the human imagination. The asteroid itself, larger than Mount Everest, travelled with sonic speed. We explore how artists illustrate this amount of power.
The Aftermath
We explore the consequences of the Chicxulub impact on a global scale: Tsunamis in Asia and Africa, wildfires across the USA, droughts and famine in Europe - this is virtually the Postapocalypse.
