mark c. taylor on stone hill

Since 2007, exhibition co-curator Mark C. Taylor has been reshaping his land at the southern end of Stone Hill, creating a dialogue between place and the worlds of art and ideas. Removing soil to uncover massive layers of stone hidden beneath our feet, he has also revealed networks of rocks, trees, ponds, and streams. Sculptures made of stone, bone, and steel punctuate the natural landscape. Three large, abstract sculptures pay homage to his intellectual heroes—Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Georg Hegel. Together with his photographs, scale models, and writing, this multifaceted work offers a place for visitors to pause and reflect.

NeXus
“Place is not a thing but an event that can never be placed precisely. It marks boundaries, yet exceeds every limit. Place is older—infinitely older—than the space it opens and the objects it apparently contains. Place is nothing more and nothing less than the neXus in which everything emerges, lingers, and passes away. A knot of knots, this neXus is the ever expanding and contracting web whose rhythms are the pulse of life and the knell of death. It is a clearing that clarifies nothing, an opening that closes around us. Nothing ever takes place because place is given. To be is always already to have been placed, and what has no place is not. Place is the gift of being that should be relinquished reluctantly.”
—Mark C. Taylor