Lost to time: Archaeological Remains of a Forgotten World

This work presents archaeological remains from a forgotten civilisation that may have existed long before our own. Through imagined artefacts, information cards and a short animation, a fictional history slowly takes shape. The work explores the fragility of history. When a civilisation, culture or event is no longer remembered or talked about, it can eventually disappear from our collective memory.

What if our world was not the first? This work presents archaeological remains from a forgotten civilisation that may have existed long before our own. Through imagined artefacts, information cards and a short animation, a fictional history slowly takes shape. The work explores the fragility of history. When a civilisation, culture or event is no longer remembered or talked about, it can eventually disappear from our collective memory. These imagined archaeological finds invite us to think about what remains, what gets lost, and who decides what is remembered. The artefacts were handmade using cardboard, papier-mâché, clay and EVA foam. The cotundra was brought to life through animation in Dragonframe, while the illustrations on the information cards were created in Krita. This work is the result of a graduation project at the Secondary Art Institute in Ghent.