Art of the Day Thread
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Memory Palace, Es Devlin
'Artist and set designer Es Devlin chose to map specific iconic moments in history from the past seventy-five millennia that she thought would "invoke our collective memories", while also provoking dialogue and debate amongst viewers."
'Marked times and places include the caves in southern Africa where homo sapiens left their first markings in the Paleolithic era.
'The Renaissance period is represented by the tower in Frombork, Poland, where mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus drew the first heliocentric map of the universe in 1543.'