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THE MAN WHO WANTED TO LOOK INTO THE STONE<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>(The Man Who Wanted to Look into the Stone)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Man Who Wanted to Look Inside the Stone is a geology researcher who goes searching. From what he knows, from centuries of philosophical pursuits, the demarcation is impossible. He can’t do it. By breaking the stone in every available way, he encounters resistance from within. It remains impenetrable. In each division, a new inaccessible interior is produced, fortified and enclosed within itself. The Man Who Wanted to Look Inside the Stone engages in futile practices of locating and revealing an invisible interiority such as:<\/p>\n

1. Inventory with the annotation of the Stones: The Man Who Wanted to Look Inside the Stone inscribes letters on the stones, in order to mark the uniqueness of each one, in the available stock of the riverbed.<\/p>\n

2. Enumeration of the countless Stones:
\nCreates a rough archaeological grid to delineate an expanding mass of pebbles. He tries to count them by moving the grid on the ground but loses count.<\/p>\n

3. Elimination of the characteristics of the Stones:
\n<\/em>By covering the surface of the stone with paint, he attempts to erase the characteristics of its materiality in order to enter into the \u201cessence\u201d of its shape.<\/p>\n

4. Hydration or Anthropocene:
\n<\/em>Stones from the western area below the Acropolis are immersed in jars of water. Over the course of months, flora grows out of thin air on man-made stones and fragments of ceramic objects.<\/p>\n

5. Imprinting the form of the Stones:
\n<\/em>He attempts to design the stones, each in its various aspects. Every facet of the stone is the facet of another stone.<\/p>\n

6. Verbal description:
\n<\/em>He abandons the means of representation and concentrates his thoughts on the cosmic landscape of the rocky surface. He attempts to record the mnemonic associations created by its landscape, as if he were about to encounter the form of the stone within his soul.<\/p>\n

7. Fissure of the Stone:
\n<\/em>Within the riverbed, where the rocks of Taygetos are precipitated and rounded, opposite the fortress of Kardamyli, The Man Who Wanted to Look Inside the Stone<\/em> ascends the river with a heavy (or a sledgehammer). Every now and then he locates a stone and, with a vertical blow, splits it in two. The interior of the stone is revealed to the light but what is revealed is no longer its interior. With the fission, the interior is transformed into an exterior, forever protecting the obscurity of the new interior that is created, and so on.<\/p>\n

DECODING THE TERM \u201cFORTRESS\u201d:<\/strong>
\nSTONE IS MY UNCONSCIOUS FORTRESS
\nA fortress is an ordered gathering of stones to produce an unconquerable interior, security and peace. It is an exoskeleton of vertebrate bodies that are fortified. The fortress, although it wants to maintain security within it, at the same time creates the desire to occupy it. This external desire, if we stand on the side of the besieger-conqueror, no matter how much the pleasure of conquest, is never satisfied. Inside each stone of the castle, we assume that there is a peace, which in order to obtain, we must destroy. Every desire for the \u201cinside\u201d is the affirmation of the dominance of the \u201coutside.\u201d And so on.
\nVISIT TO THE MONUMENT<\/strong>
\nBuilding next to a river, such as the Kardamyli River, there is always plenty of available material for building a castle. As time forcibly brings down the stones and the craftsman builds them, the top of the bell tower of Saint Spyridon replaces the top of Taygetos. The checkerboard of time, together with the tools and the hand of the craftsman, build the ruins of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1661,"template":"","project-category":[31],"class_list":["post-1653","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project-category-artistic-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotionis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotionis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotionis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kotionis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotionis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kotionis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-category?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}