A Hand in the Stone
Perhaps priorities should be reversed: touching stone cedes precedence to being touched by stone. Katherine Yusoff suggestively asks, “Always there is the presumption that it is ‘Man’ who touches rock, but is it not the rock that touches Not-Man into being? Is it not the rock that lures the waiting imagination to find something that subtends it?” She speculates that humans as “geologic subjects” emerge with a “geomorphic aesthetics” expressed in rock art: “If we remember that the commonest form of rock art is the open hand..., then this is to remember the first act of touching rock, of opening hand, spit, lip, and breath to the question of touching the earth and its geologic perspective” (Yusoff 2015, 386).
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