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This page relates to the sculpture ‘Telekinesis (Move the Stone)’ currently in the show One Island - Many Visions at
The Drill Hall Gallery, Easton Lane, Portland, DT5 1BW
Tel: 01305 826736
open Thursday - Sunday 11- 6pm until 31st October 2025
you can follow the progress of this work on instagram @markmarkrichards (click the logo above)
‘Telekinesis (Move the Stone)’ by Mark Richards
A piece of Portland stone, rigged with makeshift sensors, invites you to move it using only the strength of your imagination. This a practice known as telekinesis which in most of us lingers as an underdeveloped ability.
The sensors will detect and record the slightest movement in any direction.
You do not have to be in the presence of the stone to move it.
Telekinesis. A guide.
Exercise 1.
Telekinesis requires concentration.
For 5 minutes each day, sit or lie down in aquiet place, close your eyes and try to empty your mind of thoughts. You may find this very difficult at first but do persist
After a week or so, you will notice increased powers of concentration on everyday tasks. After a month you will notice that you are paying more attention to the world around you.
Exercise 2.
Telekinesis visualisation.
Once you have perfected emptying your head of thoughts, you will be ready to begin working directly with objects.
Choose something familiar like a tomato and place it on a table in front of you. Close your eyes and visualise the tomato in the empty space thatwas once everything but the tomato.
Once all your attention is focussed on the tomato, imagine that the tomato lifts from the table and floats in front of your eyes. This is unlikely to happen the first few times you try, but don’t give up. It WILL happen.
Exercise 3.
Moving the stone.
By now, after your work with the tomato, you will have reached the early stages of what is known as ‘higher consciousness’. Shutting out distractions will be easy, and you will no longer require quiet and solitude to concentrate. Your engagement with the world around you will be at an enhanced level.
Although it helps to look at and tune in to the actual stone, you can move it, using the power of your imagination, from anywhere. It makes no difference. Simply repeat exercise 2 and, in place of the tomato, visualise the stone.
Movement detection
The slightest movement of the stone will activate lightbulbs and crush eggshells. Coiled springs hold eight-syllable messages on paper and should the stone move in particular directions, some or all of them will fall and open.
Mark Richards 2025