Stone and Time

Issue 12 of MD Journal aims to reflect on the relationship between a stone artefact and time. Post-consumer society has linked its way of relating to “things” to their actual consumption. Stone material, through its historical dimension of the art and architecture, leads us to a new reflection related with durability. In this regard, quoting Tommaso D’Acquino, George Kubler recalls the notion of aevum to indicate the intermediate duration between the finite time and the eternity of human souls and other celestial beings, which is adaptable, in his words, "to describe the duration of many artefacts, so durable that their existence precedes that of any creature who lives on earth today and so indestructible that, as far as we know, they can be expected to last almost indefinitely”.

Il numero 12 di MD Journal propone una riflessione sul-la relazione che intercorre tra la Pietra e il Tempo. Se la società post-consumistica ha legato il proprio modo di relazionarsi con le cose al consumo delle stesse, il materiale lapideo, attraverso la sua dimensione storica dell’arte e dell’architettura, conduce, invece, ad una riflessione sulla durabilità.