Liliane Lijn
Cetacea   1980

Project for a Memorial to all the Species of the Order Cetacea.

47.5 x 38.8 cm

Pastel and ink on paper.

Published in 'Whales: A Celebration', edited by Greg Gatenby, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 83-081062.

Glass represents water and light and the prism refers back in time to Sumer, the lists and catalogues engraved on clay prisms, and to astronomy, study of celestial heavens mirror of earthly seas.