karenphillips
Rock at Sunset Bay
Imagine a sculptor relying only on wind and water for tools. Imagine the infinite care and patience it would take to cut and carve the stone, to hollow out spaces, to etch and incise lines, to smooth and polish the surface. Imagine—try to imagine—the incomprehensible scale of time it would require to shape the stone. Imagine working the stone not through the application of strength and metal, but through endless persistence and simple repetitive motion.
Imagine all that, then look at this stone. Had it been shaped by the human hand guided by the human mind, we would call it Art. But what do we call the work when it’s the result of natural processes? Erosion? No, no thank you, and again I thank you, but no.
This isn’t erosion. This how water and wind express themselves.
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