Stonemason Ian Knapper gives his thoughts on the importance of bringing history back to life through stone

摘要

When I was learning my trade, a mason once said to me: "With every stroke of your mallet, when you remove some waste, that new piece of exposed surface hasn't seen the light of day for millions of years." It is a thought that has stuck with me ever since. Different stones will have been formed under different conditions in different geological periods of time. Many marbles date back hundreds of millions of years, for example, to l-o-n-g before humans. Some go back even before dinosaurs roamed the earth. And there are granites that are almost as old as the world itself.