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• 1 2019-03-02T20:34:24+00:00 Tidal Shelf Treasure Trove 5 plain 2019-03-02T21:26:07+00:00 The geo-philia infusing all geo-odes is felt in the Petriverse installation "Tidal Shelf," which doubles as a treasure trove inviting viewers of all ages on a hunt for priceless pleasures. Pierre Jardin explains that "Tidepools are like Wonder-Cabinets. They contain all kinds of curiosities, if we linger and look closely." Jardin built a bedrock of porous shore stones, and then decorated them with unusual or cool things he's found while beachcoming. Small wonder that small passersby stop and wonder!  The game is afoot!
  
  A poem on the shelf's headstone reads:

  swash zone tomes of stone
  porous petric palimpsest
  sedimental stories. 

  
  According to English professor Paul Harris, "the poem creates an extended metaphor comparing shore rocks, with their strata and holes, to layers of meaning in literary works. Textured stones are texts created by nature; we can read them as archives of the processes that formed them."
  
  Jardin has made a list of things to hunt for in "Tidal Shelf."  He says that "things are hidden here, like in a treasure hunt, but they're hidden in plain sight."  In fact, Jardin added, "the whole Petriverse is full of wonders hidden in plain sight, and so is your garden, and our neighborhood, city, state, country, world, and universe."
  
  Here is Jardin's list of treasures:
  Two black birds; a tubby bird about to peck at two slender shells; two coral trees; a seaweed tree on two legs like a Tolkien Ent; a large beige egg and a smaller white one; two blue rocks shaped vaguely like tugboats; a small bay with a whale swimming in it; an oyster shell with a pearl-like eye; a seaweed tree leaning in a stiff wind. 
  
  How many of these can you find? What else do you see? Or imagine?