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The Library of Petric Poetics
Petric poetics expresses a life composed in stone.
A petric poetics sutures a seam along an asymptotic
rapprochement between writing and rocks:
stones becoming signs and language becoming lithic.
The verbicovisual proximates
PETRIC POETIC
serve as apposite
indexical lexicals
pointing to a terrain
where words (=) matter.
Petric poetics is composed in a confluence
of earthworks and assemblage,
concrete poetry, land art and collage.
All signs being equal,
all matter is signs,
all signs matter.
Petric Poetic In-Principles:
- Stone is a signifying medium
- Words emerged from the earth.
- Language can merge with stone.
- The visual is tactile: eyes touch; hands see.
- Absorption: absorb stone-language by becoming absorbed by the language of stones.
- Conformity: a lithic literacy seeks "a kind of word magic, the power that certain terms possess to enchant our relations with nature and place" (Robert Macfarlane).
- Unconformity: “words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures” (Robert Smithson).
Pierre Jardin extends this learning process to composing signs with stones.
He siphons ciphers encrypted in stones,
finding in rocks a font of information,
or finding sets of similar rocks that form a functional font.
The principles of petric poetics are put into practice on the paths below.
