ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月27日 04時32分

The story of Italian #marble is the story of difficult motion: violent, geological, haunted by failure and ruin and lost fortunes, marred by severed fingers, crushed dreams, crushed men. “Rarely has a material so inclined to stay put been wrenched so insistently out of place and carried so far from its source,” writes Sam Anderson in @nytmag. What we admire as pristine white stone was born hundreds of millions of years ago. Countless generations of tiny creatures lived, died and drifted slowly to the bottom of a primordial sea, where their bodies were slowly compressed by gravity. Eventually they all congealed and petrified into the interlocking white crystals we know as marble. Some eons later, tectonic jostling raised a great spine of mountains in southern Europe. Up went the ancient sea floor, and the crystallized creatures went with it. In Italy’s most marble-rich area, known as the #Apuan Alps, the abundance is surreal. Michelangelo used to fantasize about carving an entire white mountain here. But carving Italian marble at its place of origin is precisely not the point. Its major value has always derived from its removal. The area’s quarries, as these photos by @lucalocatelliphoto of @instituteartist attest, are their own isolated world: beautiful, bizarre and severe. Swipe left to see photos and video from the majestic marble quarries of Northern Italy.

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