Michael Wang's photography depicts ancient carbonized plant matter: the exhumed remains of Earth's first forests, resurrected to fuel those entropic enterprises ushering in our next climatic collapse. As the artist writes on his site, "while the material imaginary of modernity is dominated by inorganic matter—steel, concrete, and glass—these photographs, produced in a modernist idiom, reveal the hidden organic origins of the modern world."

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