Found objects, foam core, and craft glue

Timescale is both a catalogue of the wonders of the human era and a reminder of its brevity, considered in the context of the billions of years our planet has seen before us, and will see after us. Limestone, formed from the compression of carbonate sediments over millions of years, serves as the base and capital of the piece. Sandwiched between are layers of objects of progressively more recent origin: Fossils, shells, arrowheads, an antique watch, and a myriad of modern day trappings: rubber bands, plastic toys, screws, buttons, and a cigarette lighter among them. Such an explosion in the diversity of objects, driven by a ravenously consumerist culture and a market eager to meet its demands is unlikely to be sustainable. Ours will certainly be a colorful band in the archeological record, if a rather thin one.