Sliver brewed in the infinite.
Together
We spotted
Stone and I
Sums of unfair times
If time’s a reckless
Device
Stone time
Sliver brewed in the infinite
When quoting stones
That one
That from its ground sees me
When quoting stones one cannot escape
Before a sliver of stone
Spiked in the ground
Like tooth’s roots in gums
Waiting remains
No despair
Stone moves
Elephant feet
Turtle pace
Stony volcano drop
Remaining splinters
This look lingers
Edith Derdyk: Weigh(ait) up(on) a stone
A time-crossed piece of land with its own scars reaches maximum power by continually becoming. Material, object, weight and form reaching surroundings and men by match and mismatch. As a natural consequence or cause. Every line and form. The stone: gross and unique. Elements of the world that are not produced nor carry a direct meaning in its maximum power of otherness and material/temporal qualities, as artist Lee Ufan states. A part of the whole in absolute singularity. Exists in sync with time through organic cycles of ends and beginnings, through micro-events, spongy, soluble, fluid.
THIN LINES TRAVEL THROUGH HISTORY BEARING HARDNESS. STIFF OR MELTED UNDER THE GROUND.
Both cause and effect of each and every event. A stone cannot become without its own identity, its own process of polishing whether by nature or men. Layer after layer add up pasts in which time provides singularity. Impulses constantly act and react crossed by narratives that grow each act in a continuous flow of the plot it carries and the memory it perpetuates.
“Events are neither substance nor accident, yet an event is not immaterial. It takes effect on the level of the material. Events consist in relation to, coexistence with, dispersion of, the cross-checking accumulation and selection of material elements; [an event] occur as an effect of, and in, material dispersion. Let us say that the philosophy of event should advance in the direction, at first paradoxical, of incorporeal materialism.” (Foucault, 1972: 231).
When the merged and melted stone continually moving from the depths of Earth comes to light, it creates the crust by turning into tectonic plates in a slow, constant and somehow limited friction. Such an event takes a while and is responsible for many phenomena that come from transformation: mountains, volcanos, earthquakes and even continents. Each magma has its own composition and defines every volcano’s eruption and power of action.
In order to understand the unending dialogue between micro and macro cosmos through non-isolated events, we must start from a technical definition. Every action’s reaction comes with transforming consequences for the world and human beings.
“Every society, and every individual, are thus plied by both segmentarities simultaneously: one molar, the other molecular. If they are distinct, it is because they do not have the same terms or the same relations or the same nature or even the same type of multiplicity. If they are inseparable, it is because they coexist and cross over into each other. The configurations differ, for example, between the primitives and us, but the two segmentarities are always in presupposition.” (Deleuze and Guattari, 1988: 213).
EVERY EVENT, EVERY EXCHANGE, EVERY HISTORICAL FACT, EVERY AFFECTION, EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS AROUND
us polishes the stones that will turn into great marks of the world. All are connected although in a fleeting attempt to break free from inertia, to realize that micro and macro dialogue with each other the whole time. The stone as a sign of strength and magnitude, nature as a stage of events and human beings as transforming agents of such dialogue through precise, organic and powerful narratives.
