Entering the lower level, you immediately see this massive 11-ton stone extension from the upper floor floating – hanging – above the stone floor. This massive stone appears weightless. Your mind starts asking questions: is it one stone or two, how is it connected, how is it supported? And then you realize that may not be the point.
The point may be the stone represents something else. Could it be that the stone serves as a reminder to us that what is first seen may not be all there is, that things lie beneath unseen? Are these to be considered burdens experienced by the people once living in the house and on the land or recognition of the strength the people who had to endure such burdens to survive? Or is it a message that what burdens us are illusions, which should not weigh us down as they like the stone are illusions? That there are more important things on which people should focus.
We had no real answers: but the singular first experience would foretell what we would experience across our journey as we moved from the exterior view of a building to what couldn’t be seen be seen until we entered inside.
Above:
The 11-Ton Stone
Upper Floor
Right:
The 11-ton Stone
Lower Floor
Hanging Above the Floor
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