LANA LIU
COLOR OF BIODIVERSITY
The official Color of Biodiversity, PANTONE 1775 C, from Pantone Color Institute and TEALEAVES, created in support of United Nations Biodiversity (CBD).
The color is used as an amplifier and educational tool and has helped to share the future plan for healing and protecting nature in the 2022 UN Biodiversity conference COP15.
THE COLOR
PANTONE Color Institute selected a color emblematic of the oldest pigment on earth which was discovered in 1.1-billion-year-old marine sedimentary rocks of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa, by Dr. Nur Gueneili.
THE DESIGN
The layers in the artwork are designed to follow the shapes of the geological map of the Sahara, where the ancient pink pigment was discovered. Illustrations of fossils and landforms are arranged into the layers to tell the story of life variety on earth over one billion years.
