Tomiko Jones: These Grand Places

Tomiko Jones, Empire Quarry, near Bloomington, Indiana, 2012
Pigment Print from Scanned Negative, Mounted on DiBond, Varnished, 30”x40”

This quarry provided 18,630 tons of stone to construct the Empire State Building.

Two views: one with strange sea-like vegetation just below the surface of the still water, the other with a figure at the edge, never could decide which was better.

As I’m formalizing a multi-year project working on public land, I reflect back on “These Grand Places”, first exhibited in 2012, made on 4x5 film, often at dusk or dawn. The current project carries the same name.

See more of Tomiko’s work - http://tomikojonesphoto.com/

Richard Koenig

Richard Koenig, Dust Drop at the Woolery Mill, 1998

Nate Larson, Woolery Mill, Bloomington, Indiana, 2018

Jeffrey Wolin

Jeffrey Wolin, Blockmarker Larry Anderson of B.G. Hoadley Quarries , 1983

Grateful to have been able to attend a panel conversation between Jeffrey Wolin, Scott Russell Sanders, and Amy Brier moderated by Yael Ksander at the FAR center for Contemporary Arts. Jeffrey and Scott spent time with quarry laborers in 1983 and then again in 2015, documenting the folks that worked in the limestone industry near Bloomington. They published a book of their efforts, Stone Country: Then and Now, recently re-released in a new edition.