Why illustrate the past?  For the Big Picture.

The history of life is full of completed natural experiments that show how the Earth has responded to and recovered from giant fits of change:  asteroid impacts, climate swings, tectonic rearrangement, and other major shifts that have spurred both mass extinctions and great steps in evolution.  Seas have boiled, the ground has split, and the atmosphere has evolved, many times over.  Through it all, life has found a way -- though sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic, depending upon whose story you are following.

On smaller timescales, human history and development have passed through global and regional changes -- of vegetation, sea level, and climate -- which can be further understood through the twin lenses of anthropology and archaeology.

We believe that an ethos to explore and share these stories visually gives everyone a more informed and powerful worldview.

To that end, PALEOVISTA focuses on presenting lessons learnt from pre-modern human history, fossil plants and animals, even fossil molecules and residues of long-lost life or processes that can paint the best picture of where we are by understanding how we connect to what has come before.  And now, in the Anthropocene, where humans have become powerful enough to rank with traditional "forces of nature" in our global reach and footprint, these insights are more important than ever -- to figure how best to live a good life, or perhaps to live any life at all.

Browse our themes below to see how we can help visualize your Deep Time story....