“Not only in the geological record but also in our life we are surrounded by fossils of activities of the deceased that once we knew, a fact which especially came to mind when a small find of my deceased father’s papers and sculptural models came down to me not long ago. The traces of his pen on paper are like Ichnofossils of his life to me now, allowing me to identify (handwriting) and analyse (content) in some depth parts of the living person I once knew.”