“There was a heightened atmosphere in the room when I erased it, and I almost cracked.”
– Lucienne Rickard, on completing her 16-month long
Extinction Studies at the
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, during which she meticulously drew—and erased—38 lost species. The last to go: a depiction of the Australian
swift parrot, of which fewer than 300 remain in the wild.
