A Guide Through Hue

Concept and photography: Sibylle Eimermacher
Design: Rob van Hoesel
Text: Sybrandt van Keulen, Harry Huisman
Format: 220 × 297 mm / 400 pages / softcover
Published: December 2021 by The Eriskay Connection

> The Eriskay Connection: A Guide Through Hue

Born and raised in Germany, I have now lived in the Netherlands for over twenty years. Ever since childhood, I have been drawn to the rocky landscapes of Scandinavia. A few years ago, my eyes fell upon the reds, browns and purples of granite and porphyry found on sandy Dutch terrains. These stones speak of the migratory routes that they followed during the glaciations. Researching the geological backgrounds of these glacial erratics, I was pointed to two regions: the province of Dalarna in central Sweden and the Åland archipelago in Finland. My urge to travel up north was reawakened.

A Guide Through Hue is a record of my observations and leads the viewer to where the rocks are laid bare, to the open veins that pigment the landscape and guide the eye from the moment it is attuned to the hue. Reddish, pale pink, purple and brownish granite and porphyry, often bleached in various gradations through weathering; here and there accompanied by greyish and pale-coloured metamorphic rock interlaced with ornamental strands. Leaving behind their native Scandinavian bedrock, their presence gradually spreads, scatters and finally fades into the Dutch flatlands; ignoring national borders as well as the boundaries of nature and culture. What can be seen on the one hand as representatives of a migratory, homeless state of being, can be experienced on the other as interconnectedness and surrender to the universal condition of constant change.

> Read the review by C4 Journal