Survivance - Carl Austin Hyatt - Listening to Stone Beings

Listening to Stone Beings

Carl Austin Hyatt

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Carl Austin Hyatt, Sacred Stone at Machu Picchu, 1998. This twenty-foot-long stone is intentionally shaped to echo the profile of the distant mountain, Apu Yanantin. Additionally, the energies and unique qualities of the distant mountain would have been linked to this stone and the city of Machu Picchu through ceremonies and rituals. In this way the life force of the landscape could be intentionally directed or channeled to strengthen the vitality of any site. If one imagines the landscape as a body, then this work follows the logic of acupuncture.

Survivance
July 2021










Notes
1

For more information about the author’s works, see Carl Austin Hyatt Photography, .

2

Hillary S. Webb, Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), 134.

3

Carolyn J. Dean, A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 62.

4

Amba J. Sepie, “Listening to the Elders: Earth Consciousness and Ecology,” in Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience, ed. Jack Hunter (Guildford: White Crow Books, 2019), 59–70.

5

Peter Kingsley, Reality (Inverness: The Golden Sufi Center, 2003).

As the article was being prepared for publication, the author received very sad news of the passing of Don Aogustin from Covid-19 last month. 

This article is dedicated to the inspired souls whose commitment to preserving and cultivating the ancient Earth-honoring traditions have bequeathed us an immeasurably precious gift. From their seeds of wisdom nurtured over eons, we can re-member the sanctity of our world which even now blesses and sustains our every breath.

Survivance is a collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and e-flux Architecture.