William Wylie: Carrara

William Wylie‘s haunting photo series Carrara documents Italian marble miners and the marble they mine. I appreciate art that makes me think about where things come from, and the people who touched them before us. Carrara pulls back a curtain to reveal the human origin of an alien material we interact with all the time. Hous Projects currently has Wylie’s work on exhibition at the Pacific Design Center– kind of the perfect place to show this series, a building where everything is marble and Italian.

Go read X-TRA magazine’s Deleuzian analysis, if you dare! More chill miners and cool quarries after the jump.

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Author Graham Kolbeins
Date October 13, 2010
Categories Art, Photography

One Response to “William Wylie: Carrara”

Patrick Stephenson October 13, 2010 at 7:32 pm #

beautifully dusty hues…

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