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by mp Warming - USA/Berlin
 
Archival limited edition of ten printed in giclée method on a warm Hahnemühle William Turner textured paper. Size 100x70 cm/ approx 40x28 in.
 
From the Origin of Life series created in collaboration with Bill Martin, Director of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. For this print, Warming’s illustration is greatly enlarged and digitally montaged with Leonardo da Vinci’s Deluge drawings.
 
‘Rains’ depicts our vaporous planet after the Moon Forming Impact, when a four hundred thousand year rain filled Earth's ocean twice the depth of ours today.