Written in Stone
What do your surroundings look like from a lithic perspective?
Part of Lithic Attunement Exercises
- Psychogeological drift
- Written in stone
- Iām not afraid of the dark
- To be a stone
- A pebble in my pocket
- Correspondence
| Duration: | About an hour (or longer) | |
| Location: | Indoors, in a studio or other place you go to make things |
You can conduct this exercise individually, or in groups of 3-5 people.
There was a word inside a stone.
I tried to pry it clear,
mallet and chisel, pick and gad,
until the stone was dropping blood,
but still I could not hear
the word the stone had said.
I threw it down beside the road
among a thousand stones
and as I turned away it cried
the word aloud within my ear
and the marrow of my bones
heard, and replied.
Ursula Le Guin
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Describe your surroundings from a lithic point of view. What is a building like for bricks? A road for cobblestones? A monument for marble? A beach for pebbles? How do the lithic entities relate to each other, to humans and others in their surroundings? Imagine how the surroundings appear from the vantage of the lithic entities you encountered.
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Translate your impressions into a tangible form. For example, an illuminated story, a map, a lapidarium, A place where stones and objects of interest are collected and exhibited together. a divination system for geological pattern recognition, or something else entirely.
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