Pam, Thank you. Well, if you think of a pillar of salt looking back regretfully, or Tolkien's trolls arguing angrily (and eternally), or even the phrase "petrified with fear", literature does have some strong emotions displayed by this most mundane and unemotional material. The writers may have an easier time with this. Are you familiar with the Russian story of the Malachite Lady? http://www.sunbirds.com/lacquer/readings/1025 Even a stone can love (and perhaps more truly than we restless humans)! Visually? I photographed some friendly rocks: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=891447&Start=1&Artist=hauksdottir&ByArtist=Yes ...and someone else might find rocks stacked in a happy dance like Snoopy's pattering feet, or perhaps arching to support each other if they live near a Goldsworthy installation. Utah has goblin valley and England has dancing maidens. We have those stern presidential faces, but there are certainly smaller carvings all over the world. Graveyards are full of mourners frozen in their grief. Even the inuit has a word, "inuksuk", for "man of stone that points the way": http://www.eskimoart.com/gallery/D4904.html Artists with Bryce might build a stone bridge of two arms clasping and reinforcing each other to show how friendship can unite peoples no matter how deep the divide between them. Or folks with Poser might break out their old Stone Maidens or the newer Stone Troll and see just how expressive they can get. Fractal artists might have it a bit harder... unless they used a palette representative of stone... but I think exaltation (leaping with joy) could be managed, or maybe teardrops? Lots of things can be done with rock; the tricky part is making it emotional. Carolly