Présentation
In the Catholic Church, there are three categories of relics. The first concerns the parts of a saint's body. The second includes objects that belonged to a saint, those he used and those he surrounded himself with. The third class of relics is made up of objects that touched a saint's body. To create third-class relics, small holes are drilled in the tombs of the saints. Objects are inserted until they touch the body. From then on, these simple objects were no longer banal or profane, but became sacred.
Before being identified as such, a meteorite is a particularly commonplace object. It is sometimes used as a doorstop, a marker to demarcate a field, or as a boulder of some kind to obstruct a path, a stone among stones of no particular value to man.
However, once it is known or assumed that the rock is a visitor from outer space, it takes on a completely new role. Stories transform it into a cosmic relic, a celestial object that tells distant, sublime and often religious stories. It was regarded as a divinity, held firmly to the ground in case it decided to return to the heavens, and celebrated as such.
"I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears" is a reflection on meteorites as vectors of stories, migrating bodies, silent and mysterious visitors, charged with our aspirations.