LIMEKILN

On the North Aegean island of Samothrace, the burning of limestone and marble monument blocks to produce quicklime has persisted from antiquity into the modern period. Processed in hillside limekilns built beside ruined monuments, this practice reveals an alternative material ecology in which architecture is not preserved but dissolved for domestic use including mortar, disinfectants, fertilizers, and decorative applications. These drawings document surveyed blocks as instruments of calcination, where monumentality yields to disintegration and historification is replaced by dust.