Holding Stones, December 2023, Harvard Ceramics Show and Sale visitors anonymously contributed images based on this prompt and experience. Thank you to all who texted me their Holding Stones interpretations!

Prompt:
What are you holding in this moment?
Please touch the stones and sand.
Hold as many of these stones in one hand as you can.
Close your eyes and imagine disparate emotions, thoughts,
or ideas while you are holding these stones.

Open your eyes and leave traces of “holding it together” in the sand.

Arrange the rocks to reflect the prompt:
What does holding multiple ideas simultaneously look like?

What title would you give your arrangement?

Responses were sent to me and complied in a collage. Here are the titles shared:

Energy Transfer
Opposition
Burial ground
Oompa loopa
Alone
Cairn
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