We experience a childish delight when we get a stone to skip three, four, maybe five times across the water. We secretly hope that someone else witnessed it. It is a special pleasure, similar to that of seeing a shooting star, or catching out of the corner of one’s eye, a single autumn leaf waltzing to the ground. Skipping Stone plays with the idea of capturing an instant in time, freezing and making permanent what is ephemeral. In this case, an unseen thrower has cast a perfect shiny pebble across the surface of the lake, leaving a silvery trail of concentric ripples.

Illumination by Simon Holden
Skipping Stone is illuminated by EL wire, and controlled by an Arduino 7 relays for each of the hops.