New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- At first glance, Kulpreet Singh's Extinction Archive stands out for its intricacy. The 40-year-old Patiala-based artist draws likenesses of endangered or extinct beetles, amphibians, birds, fungal and plant species on laser-cut rice paper to the minutest detail. As you go closer, the magnitude of the crisis underlying this large-scale installation creeps up on you. Since 2022, Singh has been studying the International Union for Conservation's 'Red List of Threatened Species' to create a memorial to the social and ecological violence on the land. To signify the loss of species, he creates fossilised silhouettes around the flora and fauna. "Where fields once existed, flood waters have washed away the farmland and left b...