Mater / Graphite

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Graphite under a microscope

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3.95 billion-year-old graphite locked in quartz, Tsuyoshi Komiya, The University of Tokyo. This was such an exciting find becasue the properties of this graphite suggests life existed at the time, so according to the Smithsonian, this means "life was churning away soon after Earth’s formation".

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Ursula von Rydingsvard, Cedar and Graphite. "The daughter of a woodcutter from a long line of peasant farmers, von Rydingsvard spent several of her early years in the wooden barracks of refugee camps in Germany at the end of World War II." - National Museum of Women in the Arts

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I, Pencil

Essay | My Family Tree as told to Leonard Read

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The Surprising History of the Pencil

An essay by Maria Popova (The Marginalian), tracing the extraction and historic value of graphite, the chemical make up of grpahite, & the proportions and definitions of a pencil.

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Graphite v Charcoal

The Difference Between Graphite and Charcoal Explained, by Tegen Hager-Suart. A Jacksons Art article

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Derwent Pencil Museum

Located in Keswick, the home of the first pencil, visitors enter this museum through a replica graphite mine which would have served as the source of the pencil industry over three centuries ago. A journey of graphite and pencil discovery from its humble beginnings as a cottage industry to modern day production.

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Graphite

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Carali McCall, Circle Drawing, Graphite on Heavy Paper. Drawn for 4 hours. The graphite becomes dense, metalic & reflective.