Written in 2002 and revised in 2005, this piece grew out of a long fascination with the work of the French painter Yves Tanguy; the title, which can be translated as Suffering Softens Stones, is taken from one of his paintings. Tanguy's work is based on a central paradox: the obsessive, minute depiction of completely ambiguous objects, situated in a landscape where the borders between day and night, earth and sky, water and air, are impossible to define. in the five short, contrasted movements that make up this work, I tried to evoke a similarly interior, shadowy and furtive world.
A link to the painting the piece is named after can be found here.