The Soul of an Egg

The Vuelta a España finally arrived in Spain today, with a team time trial that circumnavigated the small city of Figueres. Figueres is famous for being the home town of Salvador Dalí, and also the site of a museum dedicated to his works, designed by Dalí himself. The team time trial started at the museum itself, and we were treated to many helicopter camera views of the museum, which in good surrealist fashion has a set of giant eggs on the roof.

Egg sculptures make for fun landscape art. Here in Davis on the university campus, there is a series of egghead sculptures by the sculptor Robert Arneson. The photo here shows a pair of eggheads entitled “See No Evil/Hear No Evil”. These are situated between the administration building and the law school, and neither of them have ears.

Figueres and Davis are not the only places in the world with egg sculptures. In a bay by the village of Djúpivogur in Iceland, there is a set of 34 giant eggs on plinths paying homage to the nesting birds in the region.