Flower-Adorned Inkstone — Twin Circles, Milky Way —

The word 'suzuri' (inkstone), written with 'stone' and 'see'.
What is the true meaning behind the shift from the original 'ken' to 'suzuri' (inkstone)?
Do we look at the stone, are we looked at by the stone, or do we see through the stone?
The "Tenka Suzuri series," named after the phrase "kinjō tenka" (adding flowers to brocade), is made to double as both an inkstone and a flower vessel.
What kind of inkstone would accept gestures other than grinding ink? I dream of a new relationship between "stone" and "seeing."

The pattern of the sedimentary rock changes at the scale of millimeters.
By good fortune, this piece's surface came out evoking a galaxy. It can be enjoyed for whatever it brings to mind, in relation to various flowers, ink, and water.