Bodmin Moor, A Granite Moorland,
Cornwall, UK, 2011
(358.9 million years ago)
‘A person turning to stone is usually bad, while a stone coming to life is desirable. But perhaps it is the confusion of the two realms that is real, and inevitably attractive.’
Barbara Johnson, ‘Persons and Things’.
I have been looking at these formations of stones as if they were human creatures, with their emotions, passions, fragilities, and their cycle of life.
The Tor, a weather-sculpted granite formation emerges from the earth and very slowly takes shape into imaginative forms but stay as one body. The rocks lovingly protecting each other until the breaking point occurs irrevocably due to the weather erosion from rain wind and ice…
