Table of Contents
Introduction: A Library Made of Mica Catriona McAra 09
Part 1 Geologic Intimacy
Ilana Halperin and the Wait of the World Andrew Patrizio 19
Immigrate and Meet Like a Stone, Compose a Poem Like a Geologist, Question and Explore Like an Artist Naoko Mabon 47
Planetary Bodies: Faults, Flesh, and Orogenesis in Ilana Halperin's Physical Geology Jerry Zee 71
Fissure Ilana Halperin 86
Part 2 Mineral Biographies
In-Conversation Lisa Le Feuvre 91
"Still Glowing": A New York Childhood Around 1980, or, Ilana Halperin's Excavations Dominic Paterson 109
The Hard Stuff Nicola White 137
Part 3 Core Sample of Collected Writings
Felt Events (1999 and 2014) Ilana Halperin 145
Nomadic Landmass (Ruins in Reverse) (2004, 2013 and 2020) Ilana Halperin 161
A Prologue (New Landmass in Three Forms) (2010) Ilana Halperin 175
Towards Heilprin Land (2007) Ilana Halperin 181
Minerals of New York (2019) Ilana Halperin 193
My Conglomerate Family (2020) Ilana Halperin 205
List of Images 208
Contributors 212
Acknowledgements 215
About liana Halperin 217