通常，我们对取自大地的石头进行雕刻、切割、重组，以达到想要的效果，但石头无法模制或建造。科技的进步让人类可以设计各种物体，那么石头是否可以培育成或生长成预期的形状呢？

Stone is extracted from the earth, carved, cut and assembled to fit a purpose. It cannot be molded or constructed. Technological progress allows
mankind to design matter itself but could stone be cultivated or grown into a desired shape?

我们同科学家、地质学家及工匠一起在法国奥佛涅（死火山区）研究了地质沉积过程。研究地点集中在一条长十几千米、深度为三、四千米的裂谷地带，沿线遍布着矿物质温泉。

Together with scientists, geologist and craftsmen, we studied the geological process of sedimentation in the French region Auvergne, a not active
volcanic area. Our research focused mainly along a dozen kilometer long crack going as deep down as 3000 to 4000m. All along this crack, thermo-
mineral springs can be found.

三千米至四千米深处，温泉从形成于40年前的地下河道向地表喷涌。这些富含二氧化碳和碳酸钙的泉水通过火山峡谷汇聚至地表。
到达地表后，水的流动使二氧化碳蒸发，碳酸钙降附在下方的任何物体或植被上。由于碳酸钙（也称石灰岩，有灰白色、黄色、褐色等多种颜色）的含量极高，水下形态各异的物体或植被都会石灰岩覆盖。该过程称为“石化作用”。

任何落入温泉的树叶都会历经几个月的石化作用。这种快速的地质沉积过程让新化石的培育成为可能。

Deep down, between 3000 to 4000 meters, warm water starts a 40-year-subterranean course to the surface of the earth. On its way, it will be enriched
of carbon dioxide and calcium carbonate. Those waters join the ground surface through the volcanic cracks.
When reaching the surface, water ventilate, causing the evaporation of carbon dioxide and calcium carbonate to settle onto any object or vegetation
placed under. Due to exceptionally high content of calcium carbonate – also called limestone – any shape placed under the water will be covered of
limestone - a white to red material. This is called petrification.

A leaf falling into one of these springs will petrify with a few months. This fast process on a geological scale allows us to develop fossils of a new kind.

受到钟乳石形成原理的启发，这些石头艺术品都依附固定结构一滴一滴生长起来。我们将3D打印出来的轻巧构架放入精选的矿物质温泉中石化若个星期，形成了最终的艺术成品。

自然地质沉积过程加固并随机加厚了轻巧的结构，创造出大自然打磨的石器—一种新的化石。

Inspired by geological processes of stalactites’ growth, these stone objects are grown around structures, drop by drop. The fragile skeleton, a 3D
printed structure, is left to petrify for weeks in specially chosen thermo-mineral springs.
The natural geological processes reinforce and randomly thicken the ethereal structure and give birth to geologically engineered stoneware, fossils
of a new kind.

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