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Artist: Mel Chin, American (1951 - ) Title: Revival Ramp (Yellow) Year: 1996 Medium: Etching, Engraving, Photoetching and Lithograph on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil Edition: WP Image Size: 30 x 30 inches Size: 33.75 x 33.75 in. (85.73 x 85.73 cm) Printer: Vinalhaven Workshop and Press, Vinalhaven, Maine Publisher: Vinalhaven Workshop and Press, Vinalhaven, Maine Description: Revival Ramp is based on a drawing Chin created while installing eco-related artworks in Munich, Germany. The image traces possible courses of ecology on a spiraling "ramp" of time: starting with Leonardo Da Vinci's A Copse of Trees (c. 1500), ascending through the industrial revolution, and trifurcating into three futures. The history of a hyperaccumulator plant is ever present, from it's naturally occurring place to its use to detoxify polluted land. At a critical bend in the ramp, in contemporary time, Revival Field is sited. Afterwards the scenarios of a better, greener world "reviving" the trees of Leonardo, or of an alternate path moving to an industrial wasteland or an unknown bleak future with a black sun, are projected.