12019-02-10T22:18:57+00:00Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f121plain2019-02-10T22:18:57+00:002018110413360020181104133600Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f1
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12019-02-10T22:22:00+00:00Beauty in Geology1plain2019-02-10T22:22:00+00:00Sometimes Pierre Jardin cannot contain the sheer unjaded joy rocks send bubbling up through his belly to his brain.
This geo-ode expresses Jardin's raw emotion by reducing signs to something to be sounded out, coding language as a visual puzzle solved by resorting to one's childish sense. The beauty of contingent geologic processes and events that produced a distinctly imprinted O on a stone itself stands in as a synecdoche for the sensation Jardin strives to convey, the feeling for the earth that infuses every geo-ode.