When we speak of ‘fossils’, or even simply when we say the word ‘fossil’, in 87 percent of cases, the brain processes an image that refers to a shape impressed in flint; usually a plant or an animal.
Within deposits of sediment they remain preserved for centuries in the layers of the earth's crust while, unbeknownst to them, one age succeeds another.
And today? Today there are other phenomena that mark time as we know it. Although less natural, these phenomena are equally impactful.
Fashion/luxuty goods are one of them. They dictate time and define eras. They leave an imprint, sometimes even becoming one with human anatomy.
If in a distant future a palaeontologist went looking for fossils, what would he come across?
Marco Craig provides a plausible answer by crystallizing the idea of the passage of time. Showing us contemporary fossils that will no longer be contemporary - starting from a not too distant tomorrow.
Because the very idea of a ‘fossil’ is changeable in itself.
What has been, coincides with what will be.