The Third Eye
The Library of Stoned ThinkingThe Third Eye (Østre Anlæg Park, 2018)
The inosculation where a horizontal bridgeconnects two branches high up
in this beautiful tree creates a
suggestive niche to site a stone.
The rock will sink down into the tree,
as the branches continue to grow upward,
evolving a tight embrace of
igneous ligneous inosculation,
rock and wood entwined.
The work will change with
the changing weather.
What it will look like
bright and wet in winter
among leafless limbs?
The upright triangular black basalt rock with its striking white limestone disc, sited between the eye-like knots where branches have been cut, evokes the archetypal image of a third eye. The stone floats high above the ground, hidden in plain sight to people who come to enjoy the park. When someone spots the ocular rock, the shock of surprise may be intensified by the feeling that an omnipresent eye is watching them. Perhaps seeing the stone eye will encourage a viewer to see the tree’s eyes as well, eliciting a visceral sense of natural elements as active agents in the world.
The third eye denotes spiritual wisdom and heightened insight. The igneous ligneous inosculation of rock and tree evokes an eco-philosophical, earth-centered grounding in the world, where stones and trees are animating forces in a living planet we all share.
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- Igneous Ligneous Inosculations Paul A. Harris
