Enjoy a unique piece of art created but Lina Dib, the famous multidisciplinary artist, and anthropologist.  Images are of the front and back of a gold leaf drawing of a Sicilian Fir. This piece is a special part of a series Dib has started of species nearing extinction. http://www.linadib.com/works/sicilian-fir/

Sicilian Fir, Abies nebrodensis, 2017, 9″ x 7″ Ink, graphite and gold leaf on paper

LINA DIB

Lina Dib's installations and compositions range from the experimental to the ethnographic and investigate socio-technical and ecological change. Dib is an affiliate artist at the TML – Topological Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal and is a teacher and fellow at Rice University in the Program in Writing and Communication and the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences. She is co-founder of Fossilized Houston and the Solar Studios.

Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, AMIDA’s European training program, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Moody Center for the Arts among others. Recent publications include Audible Observatories: Notes on Performances (Bloomsbury); Sonic Breakdown, Extinction and Memory (continent.), The Forgetting Dis-ease: Making Time Matter (differences), and Of Promises and Prototypes: The Archeology of the Future (LIMN). Her work has been presented at venues including Lawndale Art Center Houston, Yerba Buena Gardens San Francisco, MOP Projects Sydney, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Day For Night, Galveston Arts Center, Governors Island NY, the Whitney Biennial 2017, and Johnson Space Center NASA.