In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction
In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction was published by Black Dog Publishing (London) in 2014. The book went out of print when Black Dog was liquidated in 2018.
This book investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground, how certain materials are processed to become commodities, and, once separated, how these materials move between the earth and our bodies. Abstract in its impulse to examine how humans manifest our entanglement with materiality, the book is concrete and detailed in its descriptions and narration, offering observations scaled to the senses and refusing a strict separation between industrial materials and the embodied “I” that observes and experiences where and how they are produced.
Please find excerpts here.