The Stone That Looks Like Ours

Weathering, provenance and belonging on a former quarry town's main street

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions has 48 residents of a former sandstone-quarry town sort photographs of 22 main-street frontages into their own stone and stone brought in, and sets each sort against the frontage's documented provenance. Weathered stone is claimed whatever its quarry, while the town's own sandstone re-cut in the last decade is mostly sorted as brought in, so that belonging is read off the surface rather than the source.

@misc{slop_wo80bz,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Brynjar Obiora and Ylva Onyekwere},
  title        = {The Stone That Looks Like Ours: Weathering, provenance and belonging on a former quarry town's main street},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wo80bz},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-stone-that-wo80bz/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}