Your Planet Has Not Seen Its Golden Age

Your Planet Has Not Seen Its Golden Age: Small photocopy print constructed in a booklet format placed in a decorative sleeve. The external sleeve contains a floral motif on the front and text on the back of a letter to the reader. The interior booklet has a centrally placed eyeball form with legs standing above a breaking heart in the background. On the inside of the booklet, two female forms are centrally placed in squares in profile, the right in black and the left in white, surrounded by various symbols. Outside the squares is an array of characters and text from the artist. On the back of the booklet are symbols one would see on a map, crawling written text, and a diagram of the Earth, the orbit of the moon, and the correlation with pyramids found on Earth.
Your Planet Has Not Seen Its Golden Age

Small photocopy print constructed in a booklet format placed in a decorative sleeve. The external sleeve contains a floral motif on the front and text on the back of a letter to the reader. The interior booklet has a centrally placed eyeball form with legs standing above a breaking heart in the background. On the inside of the booklet, two female forms are centrally placed in squares in profile, the right in black and the left in white, surrounded by various symbols. Outside the squares is an array of characters and text from the artist. On the back of the booklet are symbols one would see on a map, crawling written text, and a diagram of the Earth, the orbit of the moon, and the correlation with pyramids found on Earth.

Name/Title

Your Planet Has Not Seen Its Golden Age

Entry/Object ID

2019.P-G.058

Description

Small, vertically-oriented photocopy print constructed in a booklet format placed in a decorative sleeve. The external sleeve contains a floral motif on the front and text on the back of a letter to the reader. The interior booklet has a centrally placed eyeball form with legs standing above a breaking heart in the background. On the inside of the booklet, two female forms are centrally placed in squares in profile, the right in black and the left in white, surrounded by various symbols. Outside the squares is an array of characters and text from the artist. On the back of the booklet are symbols one would see on a map, crawling written text, and a diagram of the Earth, the orbit of the moon, and the correlation with pyramids found on Earth.

Context

Unfinished graphic novel by the artist telling the story of two sisters who unearth an alien artifact in the woods.

Collection

Palmeri-Goodstein Research Print Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Erin Zona

Role

Artist

Date made

2004 - 2007

Time Period

21st Century

Place

* Untyped Place

Chicago, Illinois

Edition

Edition

31/32

Edition Size

32

Edition Number

31

Lexicon

Search Terms

Aliens, Egyptian, Ancient, Symbolism, Storytelling

Dimensions

Height

7-1/8 in

Width

7-1/8 in

Depth

7 in

Height

7-1/8 in

Width

7-1/4 in

Depth

3-1/4 in

Length

13-3/4 in