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Absorption

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Ralph Rugoff, in writing about The Museum of Jurassic Technology, characterizes stoned thinking as “something close to a trance. The effect of Stoned Thinking is to scramble our perception of boundaries, so that almost anything looms as a potential exhibit deserving an intimate once-over” (Rugoff, 101). Pierre Jardin’s stoned thinking discloses itself in an entanglement of physical relations, affective affiliations, and cognitive congruences with rocks. Constructing lithic compositions and unfolding a geo-philosophy are inextricably entwined processes. 
The scrambled perceptual boundaries of stoned thinking could be figured as absorption. Absorption is both a material process whereby one substance takes in or soaks up of one another, usually gradually, and an aesthetic engrossing of embodied attention. Pierre Jardin feels drawn by rocks; they exert a kind of pull, energetic presence, or gravitational attraction on his body and mind. When rock-fishing, the moment of initial notice when a single stone catches the eye, if at all sustained, becomes a process of mutual absorption. The rock draws the eye and something about it absorbs attentive focus and energy; in the process, some quality and/or material aspect is absorbed (form, color, markings, texture).

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  1. Stoned Thinking Paul A. Harris

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  1. A Stone in the Hand
  2. A Hand in the Stone
  3. What is it like to be a stone?

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