The project “A Million Mind Guerrillas”* is a wooden structure-repository of stones collected from anywhere (2.00X2.00X060m). The stones in the collection can be perceived either as planets in miniature or even as evidence of past life, deposited in the earth’s crust in fossil strata. The skull of every collector, craftsman, stonemason, geologist, paleontologist or anthropologist will certainly constitute the raw material for future stratifications of the planet. The endoskeleton of vertebrates is tomorrow’s mineral wealth.
The work is included in the Benaki Museum exhibition entitled “Mr. Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home”, curated by Kostis Velonis and Polina Kosmadakis. **. It belongs to the broader unit of works of the project “Lithology_ Every Stone is the Earth” which will be presented in a solo exhibition by Zisis Kotionis, in 2021, at the Art Center of the Municipality of Athens, curated by Christoforos Marinos.
*The title “A Million Mind Guerrillas” is a lyric from John Lennon’s song, “Mind Games”, 1973
**The photographs from the exhibition at the Benaki Museum are by Leonidas Kourgiantakis.