Freedom Of The Stone – a series

The freedom of the stone is an apt metaphor for seeing something interesting in these stone-on-pillow pieces; full disclosure, this expression, “freedom of the stone,” is not my invention and I do not know where it originated. What’s insightful in it is that these stones were not shaped beyond how they were when found. Freedom here is exemplified in the stone’s basic acceptance of whatever comes. This obviously grants the stone some kind of choice-related agency and superficially that seems absurd. Nonetheless, a simple, found stone that has had no work done on it by any human hands appears to be the material, shape and color resulting from mere accident. So as a metaphor, as sculptural experience, take this posture and see if the experience points at something like the truth on the person level. This freedom is significantly different from how we typically construe the idea in terms of external control. Freedom is a political enfranchisement in our culture, and it seems relatively absurd from that perspective to look at freedom as relinquishing all attempts at control over the situation. The funny thing I find in all of this is that we are merely pretending to have any control over anything at all.