The genealogy of this work traces back to ‘Rock Garden’, an outdoor installation consisting of a circle of rocks with a three-channel video projection playing in se- quence on its inner periphery. Spaced by visual overlays, it features a recitation of aphorisms clustered into a trialogue, a format intended to exceed dialectic’s own trifold movement. For in lieu of the latter’s familiar three step dance which secures the antithesis back to the ruling subject, source of all enunciation, the generation of metaphor employs the triplicate structure, namely the irreducibility of two components as the minimum requirement of any relation in addition to their medium of exchange, to generate new objects rather than reaffirm the identity of the original subject. From their outdoor setting in a circle of rocks to being housed in a compact, vertical structure, the tripartite aphorisms evolved into a narrative string that traces the saga of an object as it gains autonomy through simulation, excavates its identity through creation myths, then when exiled to a utilitarian vacuum as a defective commodity, reclaims the singular traits of its objectivity.