Four eggs grinded from Åland rapakivi in the shape of the eggs of the Turnstone, a bird named after it’s behaviour of flipping stones in search for food. The birds have a breeding population on the archipelago islands of the Baltic Sea. For wintering, they disperse southwards.
I named my project about erratic rocks after this bird, as it represents the action of turning stones, whether it is human hands that pick them up or the ice shields during the glaciations that brought them here, tumbling. The reddish-brownish Åland rapakivi with it’s typical ovoids is the most common type of glacial erratics found in the Netherlands. The eggs link the migration of birds with the migration of erratic rocks, deep geological time with fleeting avian time.