{"title":"Associations of stone","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguins offer stones to one another as a sign of love, for those stones are essential to building their nests. And in Antarctica, stones are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI too would like to give you a stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt isn’t to say that a stone is essential to building a life; it’s because you’re willing to take it from me that I can tell you this, the one thing my life can’t do without, now, is you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI do not know if, in the future, we will still be able to shape life together in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut I hope that each stone, like the tiny decisions we make every day, will come to form our shared imprint; we may not remember each one, but we will know that they are us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf we were to dissect life, it would be the vessel that holds and carries us, a ship that bears us through time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStones live longer than we do, travel farther than we ever could. They come from so far away, from an age so ancient that once, neither of us had yet taken form. Can we truly hold something that will outlive us? At this very moment, somewhere in the world, two hands—yours and mine—close together around a stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stones visible on the surface are easy to find; what is harder is to discover that, sometimes, when one splits a stone open, another heart of stone lies hidden within. Each time I lift it in my hand, I remember: if I was ready to meet you, it was so you could open it, as one opens my heart, to take something from it and to place something of yours inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“After all, some coins may exist longer than you,” I tell myself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne day we will both be gone, but the stone will remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you stay by my side, I may never again feel that first thrill of finding it among so many others, because we will always be able to gather new ones together, and place them within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe think we possess it, yet it is it that possesses us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe cannot share in its past, nor remember it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, when we have vanished, it will still remember us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-one-and-a-two","title":"\"Transparency and Proximity: A one And a two\" stainless steel stone and glassware Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Are we only half-knowing?\" Smell is the only one of the five human senses that transmits information directly to the appropriate area without filtering or integrating it through the thalamus. Therefore, we can actively recall a memory, but without the scent it contains. \"Transparently approaching each other, exchanging memories.\" We need others to lead us to see a world invisible to one person alone. A glass plate, like a watery base, and a stainless steel stone, approaching each other, resemble fragments of a complete memory, snipped from a stream. Once the stainless steel stone combines with water and collides with it, it will exhibit its odor-dispelling properties. But without the stone, will the glass plate still remember its identity? Placing stainless steel rings, various ornaments, and minerals on its body will remind it of its former symbolism of water.\u003c!-- notionvc: a64313b9-bc83-4855-a847-a0c87dda860a --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Commonplace Exclusive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46992634249454,"sku":"CMP-SOB001-MXFF","price":480.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/4951\/2686\/files\/Frame_69.png?v=1762965072"},{"product_id":"coinslide-circle-inside-oval","title":"CoinHolder 'Key in the Stone'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can one make others understand his or her intentions?\u003cbr\u003e\n Perhaps we could also ask, what objects can reveal the human heart? Antarctic penguins use stones, scarce in their native environment, as symbols of affection, as they use them exclusively in their nests. In Tongdi's \"Carrier Dislocation\" series, it's like a soft stone that can be opened with your fingers. Retrieving the object within is like pouring out your heart and soul. Perhaps it will be a key that will lead you to a whole new place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Commonplace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023209545966,"sku":"CMP-SCH001-TPFF","price":280.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/4951\/2686\/files\/Frame_63.png?v=1762884525"}],"url":"https:\/\/commonplace.tw\/en\/collections\/wj2546.oembed","provider":"通地 Commonplace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}