Drumlin Drumlin A drumlin, from the Irish word "droimnín" ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine. Drumlins occur in various shapes and sizes, including symmetrical (about the long axis), spindle, parabolic forms, together with transverse asymmetrical forms; their long axis is parallel to the direction of movement of the formative flow at the time of formation. Drumlins are typically long, less than high and between wide. Drumlins generally have a length:width
Eye in the Egg René Magritte, and they symbolized for him infinity, evolution, and the experience of timelessness. There were so many repetitions of the egg in later works by Sooster that his grave has a stone egg on it. On 1 December 1962 this work was shown in an exhibition called "Manege", hoping to gain Soviet recognition for their modernist art, but which sadly backfired, receiving a threat from Khrushchev to send them all into exile. The shape of the eggs is not exact and the "eye" in the title may refer to the central shutter-like doors in the egg that are similar