Green’s practice reveals the idiosyncratic nature of the descriptive systems upon which we depend to organise our world, to make it meaningful, and to find a place in it. It shows us the land as we encounter it – in glimpses and fragments, missteps and experiments, changeable and proximate, seen and felt by a body in contact with its surroundings. And it invites us to recognise the distance between us and the world around us as one that we’ve created, to value the ground beneath us, and to think anew about the way that we inhabit our planet. 

Eugenie Shinkle, from the essay Drawn to Scale

“Granite does not accept footprints. It refuses them. Granite makes pinnacles, and then people rope themselves together and put pins on their shoes and climb the pinnacles at great trouble, expense, and risk, and maybe they experience a great thrill, but the granite does not. Nothing whatever results and nothing whatever is changed.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, from the essay Being taken for granite

"What an amazing book, well, word-sculpture really.  A cairn of ideas, so nice to hold and unfold."
Christiane Monarchi, founding editor Photomonitor, founding co-editor Hapax

"Tamsin builds books with the mind of an architect - her books don't just contain information, they embody it." 
Eugenie Shinkle, End of Year List, C4 Journal

"Tamsin Green's Scale and Substance has a complex accordion binding, hand bound by the artist, that lets a collection of texts and diagrams expand out as far into the reader's space as they can manage... The form of the book is one of the tools deployed in the descriptive process, drawing the physical substance of the landscape down to a scale that we can grasp."
Christine Lorenz, Artist