Most rocks are pretending to be something.
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Natural Arches series · 10 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 048 of 100.
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The cloud you decided was a whale at seven has been a whale every cloudy August since. The crack on the kitchen ceiling looks like the country your aunt moved to. The damp patch on the spare-room wall has looked like a horse to three different members of your family on three different nights. The mind goes towards a shape and the shape becomes the rock. The rock does not mind.
A small sea arch on a southern European coast at low tide. Could be an elephant. Could be a horse drinking. Could be a creature from a bedtime story you have stopped telling. The tide will be in by midnight and the arch will not have changed at all. It will be a rock again. By morning, on a different tide, somebody will see something else in it.
Sits alongside The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, or any book whose title you remember as a colour first.
A natural arch is one of the few things the planet builds by taking things away. Wind for a few million years. Salt water for another few million. A frost cycle that runs every winter without supervision. Eventually a hole appears in a rock face, then the hole gets bigger, then for a short geological window the rock above the hole is held up by less than seems reasonable. Stand under it and the human lifetime feels brief in a useful way.
