EXTINCT LEPIDOPTERANS/ 1750-2020 CE
About the Project
This project is a collection-archive that includes all 84 extinct Lepidopteran species in the last three centuries. Concerning each record in the archive, we shall always come across a glass dome with a pair of fluttering butterflies and moths. They have been thoroughly replicated by using artisanal procedures. Next to the domes, some pictures of people on their fumigation &disinfection duties are shown. All images have been downloaded from the Internet.. In order to accomplish the project, a database with extinction venues, a chronological line and a pinpointed earth globe do provide us with valuable scientific information
· 84 Glass domes. Different sizes.
· Watercolour on paper. Ceramic paste, resin, pin, sequins.
2019-2021
EXTINCT LEPIDOPTERA/SPECIES LIST
Agrotis cremata/ Agrotis crinigera/ Agrotis fasciata/ Agrotis kerri/ Agrotis laysanensis/ Agrotis melanoneura/ Agrotis microreas/ Agrotis panoplias/ Agrotis photophylla/ Agrotis procellaris/ Agrotis tephrias/ Anomis vulpicolor/ Aoraia mairi/ Apamea smythi/ Argyresthia castaneella/ Calephelis freemani/ Charaxes defulvata/ Colias ponteni/ Deloneura inmaculata/ Ectoedemia castaneae/ Ethmia monachella/ Euclemensia woodiella/ Eupithecia ogilviata/ Euploea desjardinsi/ Euploea eleutho/ Euploea rogeri/ Genophantis leahi/ Glaucopsyche xerces/ Grammia edwardsi/ Graphium aurivilluisi/ Helicoverpa confusa/ Helicoverpa minuta/ Heraclia busiris/ Heterocampa ditta/ Heterocampa simulans/ Heteropan dolens/ Holomelina nigricans/ Hypena laysanensis/ Hypena newelli/ Hypena plagiota/ Hypena senicula/ Hyposcoma neckerensis/ Lambdina canitiaria/ Lepidochrysops hypopolia/ Levuana irredescens/ Libythea cyniras/ Neptis guamensis/ Oligocentria paradisus Oligocentria pinalensis/ Omiodes epicentro/ Omiodes euryprora/ Omiodes fullawayi/ Omiodes giffardi/ Omiodes laysanensis/ Omiodes meyricki/ Omiodes musicola/ Omiodes telegrapha/ Orobrassolis latusoris/ Papaipema aerata/ Papaipema angelica/ Papaipema aweme/ Papaipema dribi/ Papilio lampsacus/ Phalanta philiberti/ Pieris wollastoni/ Scotorythra megalophylla/ Scotorythra nesiotes/ Scotorythra paratactis/ Semiothisa ochrifascia/ Semiothyssa cerussata/ Titanomis sysirota/ Tritocleis microphylla/ Tyscheria perplexa/ Vagrans egestina/ Urania sloanus/ Xanthorhoe bulbulata
EXTINCIÓN/IDEAL
EXTINCIÓN/IDEAL basically consists on a temporary museum, featuring all recently extinct Lepidoptera. It is based in Vallejo de Orbó (Palencia-España). This small town was born as a modern coal-mining colony at the beginning of the XXth. Century. In 1912, one of the first Spanish cinemas, opened there. The place is now ruined and scarcely inhabited. The project has been awarded by an Art grant from Fundación Castilla y León.
ZONES:
1- Visitors’ Centre
2-Atlas
3- Butterfly house
4-Cinema
Brief documentary about the project
by Arturo Dueñas (Spanish language)