When you light this rock it burns like wood*
Inkjet print
140 x 140 cm
2018
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* Quote from the Arab geographer and naturalist Al-Dimashqi (1256 - 1327).
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— Rock 1555, Pecopteris fossil (tree fern) on oil shale, Permian period (298.9 - 251.9 million years), Autun Natural History Museum Collection.
— Corner of panel with moulded frame, fragment of oil shale bas-relief from a Roman public monument in Augustodunum, 2nd - 3rd century, Rolin Museum Collection.
— Cooked shale, oil shale after extraction of shale oil by pyrogenic method, Igornay deposit (1839-1899), Autun Natural History Museum Collection.
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The dark part
A lamp illuminates a lamp that
illuminates
Walking in the dark with others
