Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at Art Basel Basel’s Unlimited sector traces by Tiffany Chung. It continues Tiffany Chung’s work mapping the footprint of our progress and the human-driven alterations of landscapes, flora and fauna. It depicts Neolithic earthworks in Europe and Asia to suggest prehistoric global connections and charts the historic spice trade routes connecting Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, proposing that globalization began with ancient unnamed traders well before the 1400s. The work links the complex spice trade history and its role in shaping globalization through commerce, maritime development, conflict, and colonialism to modern capitalism, exemplified in the United Fruit Company’s steamship routes in the early 1900s that carried bananas from its plantations in the Caribbeans and Central America. Pausing at such junctions of time, Chung’s work traces back to earth’s deep time that spans across geologic eras and planetary phenomena to situate human history as part of the expansive natural history. Using earth’s sediment layers as a reference to the imprint of our past, the work reminds us that our traces will be carried into the future, that we are responsible for the care of creation and sustainable ecology beyond human timespan.