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Think of stone. That most elemental of the hard things our soft bodies encounter from childhood to senescence. We pick up a stone and throw it. We skip stones on the water. We sit on stone, and stroke its cold surface. The texture of stone, indelible and brutal, is the most elemental of historical tools, from flints to monuments. We use it to stone the despised, to elevate the illuminated, to shroud our secrets. We memorilaize with stone, and we secure the future against forgetting us, or so we our conceits would convince us. The pride of stony hauteur, the snear of the one en-stoned. The serene prophet immortal in stone. The angry warrior, the horse never lame, forever in flight.
 
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Paris, September 2006
Stone
Musée Carnavalet
New and Old
Louvre
(I think)
Wall
Wall in the Marais
Bridge near the Eiffel Tower
Palais de Chaillot: Cheval
Palais de Chaillot: Gars
Palais de Chaillot: Homme
Palais de Chaillot: Champs
Les chasseurs d’aigles, Jules Coutan, Musée d’Orsay
detail
In front of l’Eglise St. Eustache
In the Cluny
Jayavarman VII. 12th century, Angkor.
In the Guimet.
The Law: Dharmacakra.  18/19th century, Thailand. In the Guimet.
Borobudur. Java, 8-9th century.
In the Guimet.
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Walkabout
 
 
 
Looking Up
 
 
 
Louvre
 
 
 
Structure
 
 
 
Street Art
 
 
 
Stone
 
 
 
Night
 
 
 
Musée d’Orsay
 
 
 
Cluny
 
 
 
 
Guimet
 
 
Sulphur
 
 
 
Arod
 
 
 
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