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. The stones were not shaped beyond how they were when found. The 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. So as a metaphor, the enticement is to adopt 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 this idea in terms of external control. Freedom is a political enfranchisement in our culture, and it seems relatively absurd to look at freedom as relinquishing all attempts at control over the situation.