Deep Time — Lynn Alleva Lilley

No animal deserves the title ‘living fossil’ more than the horseshoe crab, seemingly unchanged since before the age of dinosaurs. This photo book emerged from an intense period of learning about the wondrous life of the horseshoe crab which became a sort of muse for Lynn Alleva Lilley. 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. Referencing encyclopedias and the illustrative 19th century books on nature, Deep Time ponders our place in time, in evolution and in the whole of all life forms.