Photographer Eric Ruby gathers fragments of everyday life in the photobook Stone Soup, a publication that combines images and textiles into a layered archive. Published by Nocturno Books, the volume brings together photographs taken over the last decade and transforms them into collages created through the use of different fabrics from the artist’s personal collection.

The project stems from a deeply personal approach, though never purely diaristic. The images document ordinary moments: things grown in Ruby’s garden, visits to friends’ homes, days spent at the beach, or quiet scenes from everyday life. Layered over these photographs are patterns, textures, and textile materials that seem to belong to the same visual universe as the images themselves, creating dense, chromatically vibrant, and deliberately maximalist compositions.

The result is a continuous dialogue between image and material. The fabrics do not function as simple decorative supports, but become narrative extensions of the photographs, helping to build unexpected visual connections. The compositions in Stone Soup seem suspended between personal album, domestic archive, and artwork, while always maintaining a strong spontaneous and emotional component.

Rather than telling extraordinary stories, the book focuses on the cumulative value of everyday experiences. Objects, places, and people are presented through a practice that merges art and life without clear separations, revealing an aesthetic built on memory, repetition, and the observation of the present.

And with Stone Soup, Eric Ruby creates a body of work that reflects on photography as a tool for collecting and transforming lived experience.