The Petriverse of Pierre Jardin: by Paul A. Harris

Stoned Thinking

As studies in geologic media, rockery reveries affirm Jussi Parikka's comment that "Stories of geological durations are too slow to comprehend"; they are "likely to contain fewer words and more a-signifying semiotic matter" (Parikka, Geology of Media, 20). As a mode of practice-production rooted in slow time encounters with stone, rockery reveries disclose something akin to Robert Smithson's "abstract geology," which posits "a continuity, a topological twist, and a connection between the mind and the earth that extends into a dynamic aesthetic relation: of erosion, wearing away, and decompositions" (66).  

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