A photographer and a philosopher weave images and words into a dialogue rooted in the chalk country of Champagne. Eighty pictures and an essay cross and collide, opening a space in which the inventiveness of matter across every living thing can be wondered at again. Pictures mix with ideas, the history of the planet meets the history of making things, and matter joins hands with mind.

“This book can serve as a model to all those who try to reinvent the marriage of words and images in contemporary art.” — The Leonardo Review