The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once said, ‘we are born in the middle of the road and die in the middle of the road’. The piece portrays a familiar image to the Greek road network, in which ‘icon stops’ have been set up in many narrow roads, where fatal accidents have occurred. They served as a memorial or a warning to travellers. This iconostasis signifies the transition between life and death but also placates a cursed area to a transcendental and sacred crux.

*The two rocks have been found in separate time and place.