Artist Rachel Sussman has traveled to all seven Continent in her untiring quest to document millennium - old lichen , moss , bacterium , trees , shrubs , and even underground wood . Her book , The Oldest Living Things in the World , gather 30 of these specimens into one gorgeous volume .
Sussman has been working nearly with life scientist and other scientists on thisprojectfor 10 years and has ventured to some of the most remote parts of the Earth . She hopes to get the concept of “ historic period ” in a way that will help us to empathise the abysmal depths of time . “ I border on my subjects as individuals of whom I ’m making portraits in ordination to facilitate an anthropomorphous connection to a deep timescale otherwise too physiologically challenging for our nous to internalize , ” she writes . But her power to create this art and Department of Education project has also ensue in a worthful resource for science : This form of index has never been created .
How does she feel her subjects ? Where ’s the craziest place she ’s been ? And what is the oldest living thing on the satellite ? Sussman will be join us again at 3:00 pm EST , so ask away !
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