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• 1 2019-02-17T21:41:46+00:00 I Rock 12 plain 2019-03-02T22:24:22+00:00 The verb to rock means to compose with rocks, to play with rocks, to put them in the garden, to form them into words.
  
  Pierre Jardin's rudimentary statement,
  his initial written gesture,
  making the minimal declaration,
  was "I rock!"--which presents
  the present act "I rock"
  and juxtaposes stones as letters
  to rock denoting "rock,"
  so that the reader says a word
  for an object that they see,
  as if act and rock united in
  a performative statement
  that refers to nothing
  beyond itself.
  
  The statement progressed from 
  a rudely fashioned rebus,
  to using the small case i and
  exclamation point to fashion
  a visual palindrome.
  
  The symmetry between signifiers
  is repeated in the mirroring blue & beige colors
  divided by a line mimicking the yin yang symbol.
  "I rock" was thereby connected
  to a Taoist sensibility,
  connoting an act of Zen gardening.
  
  "I ROCK!" then became a bold claim,
  broadcasted as a text message
  transmitted by a Stone Age tool.