'Our History Precedes Us' (2004) - Amora on cotton
With his highly celebrated works in the East London Kind-Of-Obvious-But-Ok-And-What? movement of the early 2000s, artist Keith Horse produced his seminal work in this piece where the symbolism is clearly highlighted by the detail on the upper right. It is, of course, a preserved Tuberocolops fossil found in the Nevada Desert in 1921; itself dating from ~199.82 million years ago just before the major mass extinction that knocked out the species' dominance of Earth at the time. It provokes the viewer.
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