The Last Pair. When great auks were found breeding on Eldey, a rock off Iceland, in 1835, there were around fifty of them. On 3 June 1844 the last confirmed pair was killed there while sitting on their egg. A single bird was reported off Newfoundland in 1852, never confirmed. It's the empty ring at the end of the timeline. Blue for the fifty or so, yellow for the last two. The years in between are illustrative; only the ends are known. #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #CodeArt