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Pyramyriad
Pyramyriad
2018

Together, the three books make a small, reflective puzzle, a two-sided ring tracing genetic relationships between the species. Sewing on the box hinge reproduces Darwin’s diagram of groups diverging over time from a common ancestor. See below for text.

A quote from On the Origin of Species on the back of the box reads, “As all the organic beings, extinct and recent, which have ever lived on this earth have to be classed together, and as all have been connected by the finest gradations…” Inside the box is a second quote from the book. “Each formation, on this view, does not mark a new and complete act of creation, but only an occasional scene, taken almost at hazard, in a slowly changing drama.”