OVERSHOOT DAY
$7,300, including shipping from France.
OVERSHOOT DAY
By Didier Mutel
Orchamps, Atelier Didier Mutel, 2022.
(46 x 63 cm).
Full description: OVERSHOOT DAY prospectus.pdf
Printed for Earth Overshoot Day, 2022.
Etchings have been engraved by Didier Mutel
and printed at Atelier Didier Mutel in Orchamps.
Text by Didier Mutel printed at Atelier Mutel in Orchamps
The edition is limited to fifty-four copies:
Two artist proof copies, lettered H and E for Peter Rutledge Koch
Two artist proofs, lettered L and L for Didier Mutel
Fifty copies, numbered from 1/50 to 50/50 for sale,
The edition consists of a suite of sixteen intaglio and letterpress prints.
A title page, list of Overshoot Days since 1970 until 2084,
and a colophon complete the portfolio.
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2021, it fell on July 29.
In this work, Mutel includes a list of Overshoot days since 1970, and the projected date going forward based on our current rate of consumption—in 2084 Overshoot Day is project to land on January 1. 16 copperplate etchings are accompanied by Mutel poetic and meditative text, which ends on a note of hope and light.