Katie Paterson, BBC Futures, The Art Of Thinking In Deep Time
In the second instalment of this three-part series about “deep time”, Journalist and author of The Long View, Richard Fisher, explores the mind-expanding work of Katie Paterson. Fisher considers the briefness of our lives in comparison to the grand timescales of the Earth, investigating Paterson’s Future Library in Oslo, whose books won’t be read until 2114, as well a room in Ingleby where pre-solar dust and Anthropocene detritus merge in a material record which spans all of time.