What how why - ceramic fossil

What

A series rock / fossil / archaeological objects in which a mix of organic and inorganic, even technologic bits and pieces (usb cables, leaves, etc.) have left their impression. In total they look slightly anthropomorphic. Sized between 30 and 40 cm high, they vary in width, and are coated in a thick dark grey magnetic paint, with slight discrepancy in color and texture as to create a faux rock effect. Each having several homemade and found, kitsch refrigerator magnets (describe kitsch magnets) applied at random to their flatter plains and facets.

My material choices are taken from the first hard disc drives, which were comprised of thin ceramic disks coated in magnetic paint. Magnetic storage in real-time transaction processing computers could then be achieved. (is there a computer action in these objects? Alice gets the reason but doesn’t understand). I am interested in employing these materials as a way to make strange surreal (one or the other) time-unspecific (what?) objects that cue a reference to an infinitely (both) older and younger slower and less controlled yet equally entropic, form of geologic data/memory storage. (could be two sentences, break down, too many ideas in one sentence. For clarity, separate them) The kitsch magnets will reveal the materials (will this reveal that they are magnets, this is not clear, alice didn’t get this) and by content they will take note of a current cross section of information and images - fossil-esque impressions will serve a similar function (does this mean that they are remnants of a specific time). What is old and what is new? Old computers? Are fossils old? Is it geologic time or technological. Is it geological time overlapping with technological time?

How They are (most likely) made of ceramic and………….