by hand with flat stone
Another unpublished image found in the ‘hand with object’ folder
This unique diamond shaped flat stone with the stripe is a favourite
Found on a seashore, possibly right here in Vancouver
Its current home is on the windowsill next to this desk
And now its image also resides on this blog
March 5, 2014 in Human, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
That one is a unique beauty. I can’t help but wonder what ancient catastrophe caused the stripe.
Yes, Susan, I wonder about that too. In fact, there’s another, a larger rock on the same windowsill that I’d photographed and posted years ago, calling it my dinosaur rock. Back then I also wondered what kind of ‘geologic journey’ it had travelled to finally land on a local beach.
That stripe might simply have been a material that was lovingly, and warmly, extruded around pre-existing but colder material; a fusing of the pliable and flexible with that which had lost contact with its thermal origins. 🙂
Tom, you made me chuckle over “lovingly and warmly”. Hardly how one can describe the immense geologic transformations on this earth. Quite some years ago we watched a splendid film series on our CBC called The Geologic Journey which you may find interesting as well.
As Tom says, I discovered from an excellent television programme about the geology of Scotland that such rocks were formed when two types of rock were liquid together. A kind of early raspberry ripple effect! I love such rocks, and yours is no exception. I also very much like the small circles: one seems an indentation, another a stain, or the signs of a lichen -? With your hand the whole image conveys power in a way that the smaller rocks didn’t.
As I mentioned to Tom, we discovered a superb film series on TV too. A second series called Geologic Journey II included one called Tectonic Europe, which included, as I recall, the north Atlantic region including Scotland and Iceland – most fascinating indeed. We had bought both DVD sets and now I feel like watching them again.
I’m glad you noticed those odd marks, like fingerprints in a way. What is their story? I’m pleased you like the whole image though I did not feel the scale of the stone fit into the print series itself.
Nothing like crossing your palm with something millions of years old. Always makes a statement…
Marly, as you know I love old things and rocks. But heh, I didn’t think I was making a statement as such, but now that you say so, I see that I am! Whee!
There’s always a statement, I think… Human hand, choice, texture, contrast…
That’s true, Marly, though I never think of it quite that strongly. I should and will, thanks!
That is really amazing. I have never seen a rock like that.
Hattie, yes, that is why it caught my eye. At first I thought it was a piece of floor tile.