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• 1 2018-07-16T20:24:25+00:00 The Library of Petric Poetics 44 plain 2019-09-21T18:31:57+00:00 non_branching_parent_page

  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).
  Deleuzian apprenticeship centers on studying a substance as "emitt[ing] signs to be deciphered, interpreted."
  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.