A stone was taken from the mountain and painted with a special matt black colour, ‘flattening’ its appearance as much as possible. The stone thus became a contour or a shape seen from afar, losing its spatiality. Then the stone was brought back to the place where it was originally found and left there in the wild. In the following months, the stone started peeling off, revealing its original nature and losing the black coating.

Within seven months from its re-instalment, the exposed side of the stone had turned to its original state. At that point, the stone was overturned so the rest of the remaining coating could be shed. Fifteen months after its initial relocation, the stone had turned back completely to its original state.