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Reading Between the Lines of Time

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The haiku is the ancient poetic form that performs this dance between present moment and earthly temporality par excellence. Risking cliché, and certainly not deigning to claim the profundity of a Haiku master, Pierre Jardin has turned to the genre as a fitting form in which to convey epiphanic insights or impressions garnered from long days in the garden.

Here, distinct bands of colors on rocks are read as graphic inscriptions in which signs of different temporalities can be deciphered by creative interpretation: "reading between the lines" on stones allows one to navigate between "lines of time." The timelines being talked about shift in each poetic line, from the incessant, repetitive rhythm of ocean waves, to the lunar cycles shaping ocean tides, to the geological epochs in which the foliated patterns on the stones originated. All these timelines converge as "current tidings," breaking news, being read in a "now," the expansive moment in which a person experiences time on several levels simultaneously.
 

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