#06-32, Carrara (Primary Title)

"[I investigate] how we stand in relation to landscape, how we move from the general to the specific in each encounter with a place, and how human lives are interwoven into the histories of those places."—William Wylie

Wylie made his Carrara series at the Italian quarries that supplied marble for the Pantheon, Trajan’s Column, and Michelangelo’s David. This image, which shows one of the blocks in the process of being shaped, reflects Wylie’s eye for balanced composition and spare renditions of the natural world. Using a large-format camera, Wylie achieves an almost palpable sense of the stone’s surface. At the same time, his sensitivity to nuances of placement, angle, and light and shade imparts an uncertainty about the stone’s scale and mass.