12019-01-11T18:59:47+00:00Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f121A thought process petrifiedplain2019-01-11T18:59:47+00:002018011317490820180113174908Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f1
The Petriverse of Pierre Jardin serves as a speculative landscape for stoned thinking. Scholars might stiuate stoned thinking among the abundant new materialisms emerging in the ‘geologic turn.’ But stoned thinking is less a conceptual materialism, conscious epistemology, or conceived ontology and more a concatenation of thoughts produced by working with materials. Pierre Jardin eschews new materialisms for being light in material evidence: they express thinking unweighted by working with materials.
I work with stone because stone is so much work. Physical labor stimulates thinking. The more engaged I am in working the freer my thoughts become…. The thinking that goes along with the placement of each stone incrementally adds to what is…. The stones provoke the thoughts and the thoughts give birth to the form. A finished construction is a thought process petrified. –Dan Snow, Listening to Stone, x, xii.
