becoming [stone] explores the slow metamorphosis of matter — the transformation of rock through pressure, heat, dissolution, and reformation.
Stone never dies. It shifts, folds, melts, and reappears in another form. What we call “a rock” is only a fragment of a larger body — a mountain, a crust, a planet.
To hold a stone is to hold time itself.
It is a fragment of a former whole, a witness to tectonic movements, ancient oceans, vanished atmospheres.

Andrea Nagl’s work approaches geology as both science and embodiment.
Through movement and somatic attention, she investigates how geological processes — compression, erosion, crystallization — can be experienced through the body, as vibration, density, or inner duration.
Becoming stone is not imitation, but transformation: an act of radical empathy, a dissolution of boundaries between the human and the more-than-human.
In the slow temporality of rock, the body finds a counterpoint to the acceleration of the Anthropocene — an invitation to humility and kinship, to remember that we too are sediment, mineral, archive.

Matter does not disappear — it only changes state.
The same elements that form the mountains flow through our blood.
We eat stones, breathe the dust of eroded peaks, and will one day return to the sedimentary record.
To become stone is to recognize continuity, to feel time expand beyond the human pulse — a quiet, enduring conversation between body and planet.

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