Quarrying is a reductive process; the final product will always be smaller than the original whether it
be the refining of ore or cutting of stone. An unavoidable aspect of mining is waste, also termed
tailings. We dig through tons of material in search of the specific types we value and discard the
rest. This quarry is the absence of that material after all the cut stone have been taken away. What
took millions of years to form took decades to remove.
It’s interesting to consider what it would take to put all the stone back… To reform the crushed rock
and sand back into the original material, sandstone. A futile but metaphoric gesture. Through
applying heat, moisture, and pressure to gain a haptic knowledge of the material, its weight, and its
strength. A kind of knowledge held in your body that gives a glimpse as to what happens beneath
the earth.