EPHEMERAL
eyes sink into stone
black transfers to white
so light, just like light
ephemeral gem
projected on you
only in my eyes
Ephemeral | hexagonal Basalt stone slab, 21x22x1.5 cm, 2016
Gazing at a 20-million-year-old volcanic stone is like gazing into the universe. In your eyes this slab – a solified black basalt column – will appear as a bright white hexagonal image.
Turning your eyes to a person, your afterimage will project a luminous image, like a tattoo, onto the body.
But it is transient, virtual: it cannot be identified, possessed or displayed. It has no material value and slowly fades away, just as it came into being: a conceptual jewel.
