Stone Witness
A hand, preserved within layered stone, extends with open palms, offering nothing and yet everything. Each fossilized grip holds a stone marked by identical striations—evidence of repeated action, perhaps a chronicling of passing time. This echoed gesture across vast stretches suggests allegiance to something beyond individual will, a pattern woven into the fabric of being itself. The body’s capacity to absorb these patterns reveals understanding not as discovery, but recognition: each new iteration building upon echoes of what came before.