Thing is simple and odd; through this oddity, a particular complexity may arise. Once in Budapest, Anton and Marika came across two stones on the bank of the Danube.

“I am holding in my hand a piece of something: small, around 1cm diameter, yellow with black veins. We picked it up on the beach. I’ll put it next to another similar object. There are many different qualities in each; in a particular way, they are like stones, but precisely to say that we can not.”

Artists have watched them interact, playing with meaning and score. M&A found out that there are three types of stones: stones, things like stones, and things not like stones.

In developing the work, we constructed a topological matrix in which stones act as variables. “Stone” designates an empty place in the matrix that can be occupied by any object. The topological matrix consists of the simplest expanding group structures of six objects.

The topological matrix can also be read temporally: as a transition from one event of thought to another in time, their relation to the previous event, and the synthetic unity of all these events together.