Ever since I was a small child I have been fascinated by the representation of times past in the fossil record. As an amateur archeologist, I saw in the solid pieces of granite and shale a window to both familiar and incredibly alien creatures. Any given fossil, be it of a tiny fish or gigantic dinosaur, tantalizes our imagination as to how these creatures lived and died. Most fossils are just pieces of a whole and demand quite a bit of imagination and abstraction for someone to take away any relatable meaning. This meaning is ultimately a source of insight to both the artifact itself and the one that abstracts it.