Gin Rimmington Jones: What the Mountain Said (signed & numbered)

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.

Title: What the Mountain Said
Publisher: Self Published, 2025
Photographs, edit, design, production: Gin Rimmington Jones
Format: Softbound, exposed spine with folded cover front and back
Hand stitched with French link using Fil de lin glacé grey linen thread
Size: 72pp, 41 images, W210mm x H265mm
Edition: 100