5/5 - Crossroad

The question of Adam, Eve and evolution sits at a fracture, but it could become a crossroad, an inviting exchange between worlds. At a crossroad, truthful encounters might even change us. Eye to eye, we understand one another. We enter an ancient conversation together.

The Genealogical Adam and Eve invites a conversation about ancestry: from Adam and Eve to evolution, from race to kinship, from sacred to natural history. To encourage this conversation, we designed a series of artifacts, each building on one of the five parts of the book: fracture, ancestor, human, mystery, and crossroad.

Genetic ghosts. Forgotten histories. The illusion of race. The science of ancestry is interesting, meaningful, and non-intuitive. Each piece is visually interesting, but also includes several layers of meaning.

These artifacts are an opportunity to explore ancestry yourself, but also to invite others into the conversation too.