Seeing Into Stone

Anika Schwarzlose

Weight	230 g
Dimensions	210 × 140 mm
printrun	print-run 750 copies
Cover	softcover
binding	thread bound
printing	offset printed
Format	210 x 140 mm
coverage	136 pages
Design by	designed by Felix Salut
additional authors	texts by Elena Solowjowa, Monika Bakke
language	English / Russian
Publisher	published by Roma
year	2021

Weight: 230g

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Seeing into Stone by Anika Schwarzlose describes a technique applied by experienced stone carvers, when they work on sculptural objects: before they start cutting into a stone they contemplate its surface to anticipate the structure and natural growth beneath it. This ritual of looking into opaque matter describes a spiritual practice.
At the same time it functions as a metaphor for a special kind of tunnel vision, focused on what lies invisible under a surface. This book is a time travel through past and present, above and below ground. Landscapes, impacted and even created by resource extraction are put into context with contemporary industrial mining equipment and historical cast iron utilitarian goods.
Through the combination of images from very different archives, connections are made that speak about the complex relationships of humans and minerals. Images and texts contribute to a debate on mineral and human coevolution, that redefines the separation between life and non-life.