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It was a form of experiment, a form of play, an encounter. We took oil shale and dissected it into its layers. It was harder than I thought. After that we tried to reconstruct it. To put it back together as it was before, impossible of course. | It was a form of experiment, a form of play, an encounter. We took oil shale and dissected it into its layers. It was harder than I thought. After that we tried to reconstruct it. To put it back together as it was before, impossible of course. | ||
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In a next experiment we burnt the stone. That was fun and mystic somehow. Burning stones sounds like oxymoron. It needed a lot of heating and a chimney construction but then it worked surprisingly well. It was extremely stinky. We collected the ash, mixed it with clay and formed new stones, trying to imitate natural looking rocks. | In a next experiment we burnt the stone. That was fun and mystic somehow. Burning stones sounds like oxymoron. It needed a lot of heating and a chimney construction but then it worked surprisingly well. It was extremely stinky. We collected the ash, mixed it with clay and formed new stones, trying to imitate natural looking rocks. | ||