This year marks the 100th anniversary of the last year of the last known Passenger Pigeon known as Martha.

This marker inspired The Last Menagerie, a line of plates designed to commemorate, educate, and remind ourselves about that which is lost but not forgotten.The commemorative plate is such an odd and beautiful object. As it preserves and frames a fleeting moment or event–it also gives dimensional life to a wall.

The Last Menagerie is a collection of six commemorative plates each featuring a different extinct animal:

• The Dodo extinct since 1662
• Pyrenean Ibex extinct since 2000
• The Quagga extinct since 1883
• The Passenger Pigeon extinct since 1914
• Black African Rhino extinct since 2000
• The Wooly Mammoth extinct since the Pleistocene epoch

A healthy reminder, particularly the Black Rhino and Pyrenean Ibex, extinct only within the lifetime of anyone reading this.

Nicole Antebi on her Etsy page.