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Vanished: A Chronicle of Loss and Discovery Across Half a Million Years

2012–2018
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In 2012, my CSU, Chico colleague, Byron Wolfe, initiated a collaborative investigation of four vanished icons and their persistence as ideas in the history of Northern California. The project brought together six faculty from varied departments to work as a collective of explorers with diverse disciplinary perspectives. We spent the next six years making work about the “presence” of loss while considering how to assemble a world of fact, fiction, and myth. Our results were a collection of interconnected words, images, and objects.
I focused on the discovery and ultimate disappearance of a mammoth's molar that was found just a few miles from downtown Chico in 1999.

The four icons:
A Return to Deer Creek for Ishi, “the last of the Yahi” (1911 - 1914)

The Missing Mount Tehama: A Vanished Stratovolcano (600,000 B.C.)

A Columbian Mammoth in Bidwell Park: Lost, Found, Then Lost Again (10,000 B.C. - 2001)

Sudden Void: The Fall of the Hooker Oak (1000 - 1977)

The Vanished Collective:
Byron Wolfe, Photographer
Heather Altfeld, Writer
Troy Jollimore, Philosopher
Rachel Teasdale, Volcanologist
Oliver Hutton, Graphic Designer
Sheri Simons, Sculptor


Picture

The Ditch

Vic finds the tooth

The Tiny Book of Mammoth Molars

Front cover
Back cover

Teeth

Mammoth Drawings


Tooth of a Giant
The man who discovered the tooth draws a map in the sand.

Video

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