What the Mountain Said (signed)

• Self-published 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition, 72p
• New

"Quarries are sites of trauma, spaces of deconstructed mass and exploitation, of overwhelming magnificence and fascination; and beauty. What the Mountain Said is set in a wild and remote corner of Almeria, Spain, unfolding around a spiritual and philosophical encounter with a mountain and its marble quarry, carved from the rock of silent seas laid down aeons ago.

Rock, stone, time as a measure of our place in the world. The book's landscape transforms from an unknowable, primal world to a broken open negative space, and fades out again to wrap the quarryscape back into the folds of deep time. There is no map for this world, a fractured space, dividing, splitting, reforming, resisting; the quarried rock throws up a jarring refrain, an insistent reminder that matter in and of itself has significance.

Four visits, five years, and this photobook has emerged to tell its story, exploring the charisma of the inanimate. It is in part a gesture of giving back, constructing a new landscape in book form, of celebrating the other. By imbuing the rock with dignity, fleshing out the void, it reanimates time in another dimension of paper and page and sequence, texture and thread. Respect to materials is at the heart of my practice, and this artist book consists only of paper, ink and grey linen thread. Its fragility is an integral part of the connections and energy I felt." 

- Gin Rimmington Jones

Softbound, exposed spine with folded cover front and back. Hand stitched with French link using Fil de lin glacé grey linen thread.

Signed and numbered edition of 100 copies.