RIPARIA, RIPARIA

On a birdwatching tour of the Doel polders in 2020, I came across a pile of sand in the middle of a traffic circle, itself in the middle of the industrial port of Antwerp. This pile of sand is a monumental sculpture, shaped by hundreds of shore swallows. As well as being a spectacular piece of work, it is above all a living and breeding ground for hundreds, almost thousands, of swallows: RIPARIA, riparia.