How might that repository inform the global response to the current pandemic? What’s most striking when viewing the images in aggregate is that, in the midst of a pandemic that has taken more than 1.3 million lives as of mid-November, few images speak directly to death or dying. Eventually, the creation of these deserts led to the death of all natural things, and the earth became a wasteland. In the fourth age, people created deserts of sand, toxic land, and cement out of a desire for more mone...