Very niche post. An erratic I first spotted about 20 years ago the Cursed Stockton Stone. #Geology #Erratics #Norfolk

Tripod Rock at the Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area. A large rectangular boulder balanced on several smaller rocks, in a leafless winter forest with snow-covered ground and a clear blue sky

Tripod Rock at the Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area. Another view

#HikingLog 19 New Jersey. Pyramid mountain

Trailhead: Visitor center
Distance: 5.7 miles
Ascent: 647 ft
Highlights: A view from Pyramid Mountain. Many glacial erratics.

Tripod Rock.

#hiking #NewJersey #rocks #RockinTuesday #erratics #nature #photography #EastCoastKin

Glacial Erratic, deposited at the end of the last ice age, 16,000 years ago. Boulders weighing several tons (like the one pictured and bigger) were carried along with the ice flow.
#iceage #erratics #Boulders #theburren #history #naturalhistory #clare #Ireland

and numerous #quarries operated there in the #MiddleAges, supplying "Tallinn with much of its building material. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Kurikneeme.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
#Geology #Geoloogia
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more bucks for their bend ;o) See also #Kivi. There is another #Mustkivi erratic (without the ‘a’) on the #Kakumäe peninsula at ///target.lagoon.continuation. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Rändrahnu.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
#Rocks #Kivid
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A former #EMU student doing #undergraduate #research worked with a massive SH and 10Be dataset from #erratics in #Wisconsin to construct a SH exposure calibration curve for the #GreatLakes region, but we ended up with a “negative result” dataset…currently in review. Hope to have it published soon!

#Suurekivi (Suurekivi)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Large stone. Former farm name after the eponymous erratic boulder (see #Rändrahnu) at ///thank.crabby.pioneers. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Tulekivi.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
#Rocks #Kivid

For other erratic-themed locations, see #Kivila.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
#Rocks #Kivid

Image of the High-Level-Bridge in Edmonton. Showing the rocks (erratics) placed along a path so that cars can not drive into the field area.

Google Earth image from the spring of 2025 showing the results (impressions) of car/s doing doughnuts by the high-level-bridge.

Google Earth image from the winter of 2022 showing the results (impressions) of car/s doing doughnuts by the high-level-bridge.

By order of council 26 #erratics laid-long the path's edge to prevent a summer and winter right of passage
- doing donuts in the lee of the High-Level Bridge
#Yeg #doughnuts #donut
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnu...

Interestingly, while a group of #erratics is called a #blockfield or a #felsenmeer, (lit. sea of rock) couldn’t we twist the meaning of the latter slightly and use it for #maritime blockfields? Please. See also #Külaniidu. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Lindakivi.
#Geology #Geoloogia
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the largest (aka #SihiSuurkivi), in the #Lemmikukael (Lemmiku isthmus or tombolo) blockfield on #Aegna. See ///loft.drama.reshapes. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Võrgukivi.
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
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about 2.5 km SW raising the question again (see #Lõuka) as to possible catalysts for starting street-name groups. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also #Västra. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Hallikivi.
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
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while #KNAB gives coordinates for a #Hallikivirand (beach) on #Aegna and there does look like a boulder at ///scenting.clinch.abbeys. But is it grey? To be confirmed. The things that keep you up at night!... See also #Kivi. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Kari.
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
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A visitor reading the text on the gallery wall The Erratics Lysanne Larose - March 1 to March 31, 2025 When hiking in the forest, you often come across huge boulders, piled up or scattered, covered in moss and lichen and sometimes even crowned with a tree. Ferried by glaciers over 100,000 years, they were dropped randomly into our landscapes at the end of the Ice Age. Geologists have named them erratic boulders. These wandering rocks have long piqued our curiosity, inspiring writings, legends, scientific research - and sometimes even climbing enthusiasts. For artist Lysanne Larose, these erratic boulders represent an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Whether it's their metaphorical dimension of forced migration, their role in the creation of the forest floor, the myths associated with them, or their simple charisma, she never tires of observing them. This exhibition is designed to share that fascination with the public. Sound installation: Flock of Nazguls Curators: Debbie Foster and Luke Havekes

View of the gallery from the back. Groups of people on the left, right and back, and in the middle, low plinths with artwork on top. The photograph is slightly tilted.

The artist (right) speaking with a visitor later in the evening; in front of them are the low plinths with works on top.

View of the installation from the front of the gallery, with people all around.

Yesterday was the vernissage of my show at Foster Gallery. Warm "namastes" to all who came out on a cold night to see the #Erratics on display, have some noshes + good conversation. It got pretty crowded! Grateful to those who will be taking a piece home when the show ends. 🙏 Deets in alt.
#Montreal

Student at sample 24-SMFS-E01

Students making measurements on sample 24-SMRH-E01

Unpublished location map of the Sturgis Moraine in south central Michigan and locations of erratic boulders that will be dated with cosmogenic nuclides

Spring break means working on ongoing projects including an AGeS-DiG award I received to mentor 2 undergrads using cosmogenic 10Be and 14C to date glacial erratics collected from the Sturgis Moraine in southern #Michigan. Can't wait to see the data! #geology #erratics #glaciers #undergradresearch

Debbie Foster, whose gallery we're in, showing me the Erratics poster in its packaging.

Collection of Erratics being installed. Image is several works atop some low wide plinths.

We installed my #Erratics exhibition yesterday. I admit I got a little emotional when gallerist Debbie Foster showed me the poster 🥹 Vernissage is Sat., 1 March, 16h-20h: poteriefoster.square.site ❣️

#Lehtri (Lehter)
More technically, #karstilehter: sinkhole, swallow hole, swallet. See #Häilu.
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Kadaka
#Erratics #Rändrahnud

A mossy boulder sculpture with two accessory "stones" that can be arranged freely, giving the user a hand in the creative process. The surface is highly textured with gray and mossy glazes, tiny hits of yellow and orange underglaze playing at being lichen. It's one of my personal favourites. The two accessory stones fit in your hand; the larger piece is about 12 inches to a side and can be positioned in any orientation.

"Mossy" is part of my #Erratics set. I especially like how the glazes came out here. Trying to replicate a mossy, lichen-y surface over a stony glaze was a fun challenge.

On show 1-31 March 2025 at Foster's. poteriefoster.square.site 👀

#Montreal #ContemporarySculpture #Art #CanadianArt #Ceramics

The Erratics. Lysanne Larose. 1-31 March (2025). Curated by Luke Havekes and Debbie Foster. Sound installation by Flock of Nazguls. Vernissage 1 March, 4-8 PM, at 500 Provost, Lachine QC. Les erratiques. Lysanne Larose. 1-31 mars (2025). Commissaires: Luke Havekes et Debbie Foster. Installation sonore: Flock of Nazguls. Vernissage: 1er mars, 16h-20h, 500 rue Provost, Lachine QC. Image is a pair of posters side by side, in English and in French. Each poster has two images of Erratics sculptures that will be on display at the show.

On 1 March '25, 16h-20h, we'll be holding a vernissage for my first solo show, The Erratics, at Gallery Foster, so you're invited! See gallery for deets: poteriefoster.square.site

#Montreal #MontrealArtist #MontrealEvents #ArtShow
#CeramicArt #Erratics #MadeInCanada #CanadianArt #ArtShare #SoloShow

"Suitcase Blues (2024)" is an eight-piece sculpture that can be arranged however you like. All the pieces can fit in your palm. One piece, with blue washes, is like a boulder-suitcase, giving this set its name, and there's a humanoid like rock sitting on top. The rest are boulders. All pieces are made of a brown-firing clay, layered with pastel-tinted terra sigillatas, and later scribbled with sinuous lines of colour pencils, in an almost childlike manner (I think of exiled children when I do this). The lines are meant to evoke the many roads migrants, deportees and refugees wander in search of safety.

"Suitcase Blues." My #Erratics can also be viewed metaphorically. Ripped from the land & carried by glaciers, they stand here for all animals & humans uprooted by enormous forces, such as fire, flood, drought, war, oppression, deportation. A pretty pastel set for a grim reality.
Deets in Alt!

#Art

A trio of ceramic objects shaped like rocks. Two small ones and a larger one. They are coated in pale stained terra sigillatas, dotted with pastel glazes. Once they were finished, I drew lines with colour pencils linking the dots like networks of cities and roads. This is about how these wandering rocks can be a metaphor for forced migration, for women, men, children and animals being driven from their homes by forces much bigger (war, drought, floods, famine, crime, oppression, loss of habitat) than themselves and seeking a new place to live...

It's a snow day here, so have "Big Pastel", a trio of pale #Erratics that may be arranged freely, giving the owner a hand in the creative process, which is something I've come to really value. Full deets in the Alt.

#ForcedMigration #CeramicArt #ContemporarySculpture #MadeinCanada #Quebec #Art

One of the largest Erratics in the set, this sculpture is inspired by the boulders and rocks ferried by glaciers for 100,000 years and dropped will-nilly at the end of the ice age. Slowly, life returned in the landscape, bushes and trees, mosses and lichen reappeared. It was coil built and glazed with various stony and mossy-looking glazes I designed, and fired three times to achive the desired results. Some cold work afterwards to polish it up. Photo is of a large grayish object with greenish patches on a dark backgroud. There are cracks in the surface that have been filled with a golden finish.

Today's an #Erratics day, so here's "Golden Veins" for y'all: a large coil built sculpture of a rock covered with moss, and with veings of gold going through it. Full deets in Alt!

#CanadianCeramics #ContemporarySculpture #ClayArt #MossAndStone #GlacialErratic #InspiredByNature #MadeInCanada

Image of a square poster. Text: The Erratics. Lysanne Larose. 1-31 March (2025). Vernissage: Saturday, March 1, 4-8 pm, at Poterie Foster, 500 Provost, Lachine QC H8S 1M2 (on Montreal island). Images are of two erratic sculptures. Sorry I'm too lazy to describe them.

Image of a square poster. Text: Les erratiques. Lysanne Larose. 1-31 mars (2025). Vernissage: samedi, 1er March, 16-20h, Poterie Foster, 500 rue Provost, Lachine QC H8S 1M2 (sur l'ile de Montreal pour ceux qui ne sont pas familiers avec notre géographie).

I'm chuffed to announce my #Erratics will be on display in Potery Foster's Gallery, 1-31 March 2025. The show is co-curated by Luke Havekes & will feature a @flockofnazguls.bsky.social sound installation. Vernissage: March 1.
#CanadianCeramics #Montreal #Quebec #Ceramique #ClayArt #GlacialErratic

A large stoneware object that looks like a boulde atop pebbles. It's a wood fired Erratic, in browns and yellows, with a dozen companion stones, some with hits of gold. I like how you can arrange these any way you like. Personally, I like it when it appears like the small stones are stealing away with the big one. Sometimes, I perch one on top, so it can direct the gang below. It's a playful piece.

All right, y'all, today's an #Erratics day. Here's Flat Rock Parade. It can be positioned in any way you'd like. It's actually quite a funny piece. Full deets in the Alt!

#GlacialErratics #ContemporarySculpture #WoodFired #Canada #CanadianArtist #AbstractSculpture #ClayArt #Ceramics #Portfolio #QC

A ceramic sculpture that is made of three large 'rocks' tumbled together, with three smaller 'rocks' atop each, in an almost but not quite figurative group. The larger figure is in shades of red, the medium on the left is greenish, while the smallest is in yellow tones. There's a white crackle glaze on top, and there are drips and streaks, suggesting weathering. It's a very textural piece. The base clay is red-brown. This is about people being forced from their homes, and not knowing where to go, really.

An #Erratics piece called Migrations, which is one thing that those boulders did: wander around the landscape, ferried by the implacable power of mighty glaciers, and not knowing where they'd land eventually. Full deets in the Alt.

#ContemporarySculpture #CanadianCeramics #ClayArt #ForcedMigrations

A jumbled stack of colourful little objects that can be held in your hand with what looks like maps on them. The base surface is in soft shades of pink, yellow & green, with pastel glaze dots and colour pencil lines linking the dots together to form networks. Two of the objects look like abstracted figured, one kneeling, one reclining on its side. I made this thinking of the people who have been forced from their homes unto roads around the world by conflict, war, famine, crime, climate change and more, and are seeking to find a new place to call home or at least somewhere safe.

As part of my year-long Clay Cohorts (@cohorts.bsky.social), my mentor challenged me to try terra sig on smaller works. I came up with these #Erratics, which can be arranged in any way. This particular set speaks to forced migrations and looking for a new home. #Ceramics #ForcedMigration

A boulder, 7"x10"x8" boulder sculpture canted atop a smaller boulder. The colours are buff, yellow, and black. The background goes from black to white. The two rocks can be arranged freely, giving the user/owner an opportunity to participate in the creative process. #GlacialErratic #Woodfire #Artsky

Bonjour! Today, we're back with #Erratics (basically I'm going through the portfolio I shot late 2024). Here's Buff Pair, a #woodfired set made of speckled high fire clay, flashing slip & natural ash deposits. It can be arranged freely, which gives the owner a part in the creative process.

A ceramic sculpture that is shaped like two stones. One side is red, like a figure wearing a parka, the other side is gray with green tree trunk outlines.

I guess I better start posting some of my work. First up, a piece from my #Erratics set, which is inspired by the large boulders to tiny pebbles that were ferried by glaciers and dropped willy-nilly across the landscape when the ice age ended, after which trees and plants grew around them.

Free imagery from #theXposedProject.

www.dwaynebrownstudio.com/thexposed-pr...

#FreePhotography #Erratics