To hover means to hang high up in the sky. The air has no hooks something could be hanging on and therefore to hang high up in the sky is always an expression for an impossible or even absurd situation. The person whose fate is hovering finds himself in the most possible uncertainty. There are enough reasons tothink that art finds itself in a similar situation for a long time. Somehow everything keeps on going but nobody really knows where this leads to. In such a precarious situation everything which is hovering gains avery special expressiveness. The terminology as well as the stones.
loping an art nothing similar can be found in the whole Occident.
The searching, choosing, collecting, presenting and finally the looking at untreated stones, no matter if this happens in the well-known Zen-gardens or in your private area, is an art of seizing the stones in their pure "being".
Not the craft work of the stones leads us to the "work", but the way of the adequate presentation of the already existing dose the job. In thisturning away from the principal of producing, in the focus to the ready made the traditional Japaneas art touches the paradoxes and even the contradictions of the modern world of western art in an odd way.
But to make stones hover by hanging them onto ropes made of steel and building a highly symmetrical construction is so far away hard to connect this mathod to it. But that's even better: nothing is more seductive and more obscene than making an artist to the ambassador of some exotic principle.
Or speculating as an artist to the benefit how the world of arts will hooonor such an effort in the sarch for new material.
stones doesn't even want to make the connection between eastern and western culture, between the sky and the ground or between "art" and all that is "not art"- or between everything which we want to be reconciled through art so much.
Their virtual counterparts you can recognize and feel that the river now has an eye-an eye through which the river floats without ever touching it.
Who doesn't want to call that art?