Manuel Díaz Tufinio

The modified cascade hitting the rock that will be converted in a seat. The Time of the Stone

River stone
2013 - present
Veracruz, Mexico.
Team: Antolin and his family, the guardians of the river.

Humankind has the ability to re-define the function of certain objects in order to meet our needs. Stone formations used as seats is one example that has long fascinated me.

The Time of the Stone poses one question: What would happen if nature was designed to satisfy our whims? For this project, I slightly adjusted the width of a cascade in the course of small river, so that the water would fall on a rock I previously placed beneath and slowly eroded it to fit the dimensions of a seat for a 7 year-old Mexican boy.

The time it will take for this cascade to create this rock seat with ergonomic measurements is irrelevant. With this project, I want to question the slowness of natural processes versus the accelerated rate of consumption and demand in which our species lives.
Near the river, a rock was taken with measurements close to those of the seat and we placed it 
where the water fall.  Using plastic couplings, I adapted the width of the water outflow to match that of the intended seating area.


The water hitting the rock will erode it until it reaches the depth of the required seat.
 Antolin and his family, the guardians of the river on top of the modified cascade.