Red Bin Art Project
Life on Earth is under unprecedented threat, with species disappearing at alarming rates. At the same time, humanity is looking outward to Mars and beyond in search of life’s earliest traces. Red Bin is a site‑specific visual art project documenting extinct species through public, place‑based gestures and digital collage.
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Notes on Extinction
In selected public locations, the project artist, Dr Kim Hamilton, placed scraps of paper inscribed with the names of extinct species into rubbish bins and photographed these moments to create composite artworks using NASA’s Mars landscapes and the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). These works connect to recent Jezero Crater findings that suggest potential biosignatures of ancient microbial life.
The resulting artworks draw a conceptual thread between local extinction and planetary narratives. While we search for traces of life on other planets, we are losing species here on Earth.
