Power Stones

Coming from the heart of the earth, minerals were formed at the same time as our planet during its slow cooling. They are the result of metamorphoses lasting several millennia, concentrates of geological time and colossal telluric forces. The transmutation of chemical elements under improbable and sometimes miraculous conditions has produced fabulous materials – chimerical colors, atomic geometry alphabet, tormented architectures, formal hypnoses. Faced with the prodigious beauty of minerals, the imagination could not help attributing powers to them: strength, clairvoyance, fertility, spirituality, meditation, protection… Faculties, immutably sought after, which constitute a set of physiological and mental skills necessary for the balance of the being. Prescience or belief, the power of stones has been established since the beginning of human history to guard against fears and dangers. The contemporary threats represented by electromagnetic or chemical pollution of the air, water, food, create concern about the degradation of our vital capacities. Institutional speeches – like technological solutions – are not enough to reassure people. Outside of current scientific reasoning, Power Stones summons the power of minerals to protect itself from a world where the invisible torments.

This series of domestic objects fulfills its functions by amplifying the power of mineral matter. The minerals will survive us – reassuring durability of their passing possession, mysteries of their unfinished knowledge. Falsely inert, minerals pursue the eternal mutations of their stone life.