Deep Breath
Mammoth and Amber  (height 1 3/4")
At first sight this carving may seem a little macabre... A fossilized human mouth emerges from a tightly-packed conglomeration of fossil remains, as if gasping for air.From our scholarly, yet still very sketchy reconstruction of the Earth's history it would appear that life on Earth exists despite the planet's periodic attempts to rid itself of it's parasites. It would be unrealistic to imagine that our species would not suffer the same fate should a meteor or supervolcano take evolution by the throat, even in the far-forseeable future.
By juxtaposing fossil and human remains I merely point out that human life is only a Kahoutec-size event away from total extinction anyway; irrespective of any damage we may ourselves have done to the planet. I find this strangely reassuring!  Furthermore, who is to say that this has not already happened? Our methods of reassembling the historical jigsaw rely as much on what we don't find as to what we do. So in justifying this image all I can say is that we have not found a similar fossil yet...