ABSTRACT
Ranging across the worked landscapes of Cornwall, this chapter examines the relations between place and matter that have formed in the region over millennia. Attending to a substantial body of research carried out in Trenoweth Dimension Granite Quarry, David draws on notions of craft as a social assemblage. Here craft is about livelihood, it is the storying of reciprocal, multiplicitous and conversant relationships that contest binary distinctions of living and non-living. In this context, and framed by new materialist discourses, David explores the specificities of granite in relation to working practices, ritual, Magick, heavy industry and sea-land unions. What emerges is a sense of how place is at once an already formed vessel within which constellated bonds are nurtured, yet simultaneously place is the beating fleshy hearts of an infinite array of more-than-human makers. Indeed place is [possibly] an affective synthesis of form and formation.
