I went through a period my senior year of high school in which I looked at a lot of Georgia O’keeffe paintings and made some of my own work on the theme of bones (also cat skeleton).
Bones are incredibly elegant manifestations of form and function. Despite rarely being seen, they quietly dictate morphology and movement. They divulge secrets about the life of the organism they composed, such as how it hunted, ate, and procreated. Bones record ancient suffering such as drought, famine, and catastrophe. In fact, Georgia O’keeffe spent much of her time in New Mexico at a mass burial of Triassic creatures, otherwise known as Ghost Ranch. Here, a massive herd of Coelophysis theropods died in a flash flood 215 million years ago. The bone quarry not only revealed the earliest appearance of bird-like characters in the fossil record, but provided hundreds of individuals to compare of various ages, physiologies and genders. Several skeletons were preserved fully articulated, an invaluable find for paleontology.
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