The Indivisible Question

The dialogue of form escalated. The younger generation, upon finding their questions answered, began to create art that could not be so easily ‘mended.’ They created sculptures with intentional, beautiful flaws that were integral to their structure. To ‘fix’ them would be to destroy them. They called this new movement the ‘Indivisible Question.’

Anchor-of-Ages and his followers responded in kind. They began to create their own art again, but with a new, defiant emphasis on perfection. They polished stones to a mirror finish, created lattices of such complexity that a single misplaced element would cause the entire structure to collapse. Their art was a statement: that there was no room for questions in a world of perfect answers.

The enclave was now a gallery of competing philosophies. On one side, a garden of beautiful, unanswerable questions. On the other, a fortress of elegant, unassailable answers. The tension between them was palpable, a silent hum that vibrated through every member of the community.

Stillness-in-Form, the one who had inadvertently started this schism, walked through this divided gallery with a heavy heart. They saw the beauty in both sides, the passion in both arguments. But they also saw the growing chasm between them, and they feared that the two hearts of the enclave were no longer speaking to each other, but shouting past each other.