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Extraction Landscapes
  1. Chantilly Quarry, Loudoun County, Virginia
  2. Twin Creeks Complex, Loudoun County, Virginia
  3. Fairfax Quarry, Fairfax County, Virginia

Encounters with Stone

Amonate #31 Coal Mine

These investigations seek to draw the materiality of stone at a scale larger than 1:1. To do so enlargens and enlivens the forms and embodied processes present in the stone. These dimensions of the stone are the first to disappear in projects engaging with extraction landscapes - the immediacy of the encounter is dispaced by the instrumentality of larger scale mappings and design operations. The challenge through this work, and its related counterparts, is to entangle the operational with the immediate.