Geology

Considering contemporary ceramics.

For the past five years, artist Margaret Ross Tolbert has been traveling to southern Turkey to the site of ancient Lycia, an autochthonous culture with roots in the Bronze Age, later Hellenized, and eventually controlled by the Romans.

“Tiny Tim lived there, stirring beans and frying eggs in a kitchenette in the closet.” 

If novelists could tell the story of climate change, they might spark the action scientists are calling for in order to save the planet.