Blocs Erratiques

Ongoing collection of rocks since 2015

    In the 19th century erratic blocks were so called because they were found standing in the middle of nowhere, in plains or spectacularly balancing on the edge of mountain ridges for no apparent reason.

     At the time, geologists hadn’t sorted out yet that these - sometimes enormous - boulders had been moved kilometers away from their ground of origin by the melting of the ice caps years and years before. The reason why they stood there was a mystery as well as a source of speculation and myths.

    The stones that I found on highway services stations, parking lots and residential estates appeared to be the only raw shapes of those managed environments, thus they seemed misplaced for they recall ancient rituals of stone aligning. They also were the only clue on what lay beneath the asphalt or concrete layer.