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Deep Time
Lynn Alleva Lilley (US)
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Concept and photography:
Lynn Alleva Lilley
Poem:
Jane Hirshfield
Essay:
Helen J. Bullard
Narrative construction:
Lynn Alleva Lilley
Rob van Hoesel
Design:
Rob van Hoesel
Lithography:
Sebastiaan Hanekroot (Colour&Books)
Production:
Jos Morree (Fine Books)
Print:
Wilco Art Books (NL)
Binding:
Van Waarden (NL)
Slipcase:
Kilsdonk Packaging & Presentation (NL)
Saen Screen (NL)
The term ‘deep time’ refers to geological time and encompasses the age of the earth which scientists estimate to be about 4.5 billion years old. The photographs in this book were made in Lewes, Delaware, surrounding beaches and in laboratory using microscopes and emerged from an intense period of learning about the world of the horseshoe crab which unexpectedly became a sort of muse for Lynn Alleva Lilley (US).
No animal deserves the title ‘living fossil’ more than the horseshoe crab, seemingly unchanged since before the age of dinosaurs. A Japanese myth claims that they are the reincarnation of the souls of Japanese samurai warriors roaming the bottom of the sea. But it is the spawning of the horseshoe crab during the night’s high tides of the new and full moons of May and June that is especially thrilling. The horseshoe crab’s response to these universal forces, which has continued for more than 450 million years, triggers us to imagine ‘deep time’ and human’s emergence from it.
Through her poetic way of photographing Alleva Lilley manages to capture the wondrous beauty of our planet and the mystic life of the horseshoe crab in many different ways, resulting in an immersive photo book which references encyclopedias and the illustrative 19th century books on nature.
By the confluence of art and science Deep Time ponders our place in time, in evolution and in the whole of all life forms.
Including an essay by research-based storyteller Helen J. Bullard.
Lynn Alleva Lilley is an American photographer born in Washington, DC and currently living in Silver Spring, MD. At the core of her photographic work is connection with place and nature. She has a particular interest in the photobook as a uniquely intimate way of presenting her photographs. Her first photobook, Tender Mint, includes photographs made in Jordan (2011-2014) which embody loss, grief, and surprising, otherworldly beauty. The photographs in her photobook, Deep Time (Spring 2019), present the mysterious life and world of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Lynn began as a self-taught photographer over 25 years ago and later studied with photographer Terri Weifenbach in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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“There’s something uncanny about Lilley’s approach, something that reminds us of time’s elusiveness and humanity’s inability to really judge what time means, what different consciousness is and of the problems of our short attention span. Lilley shows us that not everything dies, that time sustains and continues, that there are things we see everyday that will outlast us and when the book works at its best it’s a call to humility, to acceptance of the happenstance of our lives, our existence, our species.” (Matte Dunne)