Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
ON THE FLOOR
Charles Horton Cooley
Theorist designate - flagged from the theory registry (#8494)
“You learned who you are by watching what other people reflected back at you. The mirror, it turns out, was people all along.”
ON THE FLOOR
Edward Soja
Theorist designate - flagged from the theory registry (#8494)
“Space is not the stage the story happens on - it is one of the actors. Ask WHERE, and half the mystery answers itself.”
ON THE FLOOR
George Herbert Mead
Theorist designate - flagged from the theory registry (#8494)
“The self is a conversation: the I speaking, the Me listening with everyone else's ears. You rehearse society every time you think.”
BH1-031 · The Rocky Ledger — Open the drawer
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-032 · The Rocky Ledger — What is this thing?
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-033 · The Rocky Ledger — Read the source
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-034 · The Rocky Ledger — Map it / time it
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-035 · The Rocky Ledger — Two sources disagree
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-036 · The Rocky Ledger — State the claim
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-037 · The Rocky Ledger — Take the other side
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-038 · The Rocky Ledger — Weigh it
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-039 · The Rocky Ledger — Build the answer
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-040 · The Rocky Ledger — For the file
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-041 · The Rocky Ledger — Go and look
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-042 · The Rocky Ledger — Now, today
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-043 · The Rocky Ledger — Teach it back
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-044 · The Rocky Ledger — The other place
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
BH1-045 · The Rocky Ledger — One object, close
Planets are debris that learned to keep accounts - strata are the first archive.
The Ledger at Grandview
A mile of rock cut open by a river. Every band is a page: limestone from a sea, sandstone from dunes, shale from a mud flat. The bottom pages are nearly two billion years old; the top are 270 million.
Hutton's Unconformity
A shore in Scotland where grey rock stands on end and red rock lies flat on top of it. In 1788 James Hutton brought two friends here by boat and showed them: the grey was laid down, folded upright, worn flat, and then the red was laid across it. 'The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.'
Jack Hills, from Orbit
A stretch of dry hills in Western Australia seen from a satellite. In a ridge of sandstone here, geologists found zircon crystals dated to 4.4 billion years - older than any rock on Earth, washed out of a crust that no longer exists.
The Stone Older Than Earth
The same slice that hangs in the Forge, hung here as the ledger's first entry: a stone that condensed before the Earth, the opening balance every later page is measured against.
From the gallery’s own wall — “BH1-031 · The Rocky Ledger — Open the drawer”.