{"id":1269,"date":"2023-06-21T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:50:16","slug":"quiddity-the-sarsen-stones-of-avebury-with-fay-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/2023\/06\/21\/quiddity-the-sarsen-stones-of-avebury-with-fay-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiddity: The Sarsen Stones of Avebury &#8211; Fay Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1269\" class=\"elementor elementor-1269\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca174e0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ca174e0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fea4e5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7fea4e5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a01fcf elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"9a01fcf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;vimeo&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"elementor-video-iframe\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" title=\"vimeo Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1023514230?color&amp;autopause=0&amp;loop=0&amp;muted=0&amp;title=1&amp;portrait=0&amp;byline=0#t=\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3319986 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3319986\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-16d69983\" data-id=\"16d69983\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ce1b34b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ce1b34b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Quiddity: The Sarsen Stones of Avebury <\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Fay Stevens<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Avebury (Wiltshire, UK) is an ancient stony archaeological place constructed using local sarsen stones of post-glacial Cenozoic silicified sandstone. The stones are formed through a petrification process in which silica-rich fluids seep into voids (created by rocks, wood, bones, shells) and replace the original materials with silica (SiO2).<\/p><p>These \u2018sarsen stones\u2019 hold the essences and memories of their pre-silicified states \u2013 memories that can be encountered as echoes, traces and whispers within the vast stone megaliths of the site.<\/p><p>This zoom session was live from Avebury, a haptic conversation with the Avebury sarsen stones in which the zoom draws across the surface of the sarsens in a tactile praxis engaged with the stones\u2019 inherent nature or essence of past environments, present climates and future lifeways. We observed the natural formations of solution hollows and lichens that tell a story of climates past and climate present. We engaged with the human shaping of the stones that were moved and sculpted by people over five thousand years ago.<\/p><p>In essence, our senses and the moving of the camera over the stones is akin to a sensorial drawing\/rubbing\/tracing: a quiddity of rock. We might also play around at the site with 18<sup>th<\/sup> century antiquarian Willian Stukeley\u2019s drawings of the stones. This is a phantasmagorical process of deep time materiality: site, stone, time, body, action. Here, the viewers step into the drawing, through my presence within Avebury, in a tangible immersive palimpsest of sarsen and site, environment and stone.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiddity: The Sarsen Stones of Avebury Fay Stevens The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Avebury (Wiltshire, UK) is an ancient stony archaeological place constructed using local sarsen stones of post-glacial Cenozoic silicified sandstone. 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