West Park: Egg
West Park: Egg

The exaggerated, almost conical form of sea-birds' eggs is a feature that prevents them from rolling off the narrow cliff ledges upon which the birds nest - the eggs roll in circles. These are some of Bill Herbert's verses that inspired the design:

all life shall grow
from my internal glow

I am shaped to roll
with the tide of birth

the nest shall clutch me
in its tender hand

West Park: Egg

The exaggerated, almost conical form of sea-birds' eggs is a feature that prevents them from rolling off the narrow cliff ledges upon which the birds nest - the eggs roll in circles. These are some of Bill Herbert's verses that inspired the design:

all life shall grow
from my internal glow

I am shaped to roll
with the tide of birth

the nest shall clutch me
in its tender hand