NaBloPoMo Day 4: Not Rocks at the Met Breuer. Vija Celmins in the Uncanny Valley

Very Tricky Not Rocks

You see these rocks? They aren't rocks.

Vija Celmins, an artist, had a bronze cast made of actual rocks. Then she took the bronze cast and meticulously painted it to look exactly like the original rock.

This became her thing:

More Not-Rocks

Is this a comment on deception and artifice?  It could be a metaphor for a glittering metallic heart inside an exterior that looks just like a... rock. Or a beautiful natural exterior with a hollow interior.

I'm reminded of those statues of people that look creepily lifelike. Just instead of "Woman in House Dress with Cigarettes" Vija Celmins decided to go with "Rocks."

Or maybe she's like that Chilean poet whatshisface Pablo Neruda who wrote odes to common things.

Basically, I'm not sure what to make of this.