After several years of denied access, I was finally permitted to photograph large slabs of semi-precious stone. Though access required persistence, the extraction of these stones demanded a far more complex orchestration of labor, energy, capital, and desire. Cut, shipped, commodified, installed, and eventually discarded within the cycles of the built environment, their transformation speaks to a temporal disconnection between cycles of consumption and their recordings of deep time. These images are each constructed from approximately 40-60 high-res photographs sutured together and presented at a 1:1 scale. I imagined these images as both an archive and a requiem to these ancient formations, created over thousands to millions of years, that contain the history of the world.