Karin Boye has been returned to her place outside the extended and refurbished library and people have once more started filling her hand with flowers. … Continue readingKarin diagonals

Pat the Monster – I don’t really know if this monster is called Pat, but it should be! Hand patting the monsterous head of a chain-saw cut dinosaur sculpture in the children’s playground of the Botanical gardens.

(I had intended today’s photo to be of Gothenburg’s central library, newly re-opened after a major extension and refurbishment, but I’m still confined indoors by a bad cold and pollen allergy, so this is a photo I took a week ago.)
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Stilt-walkers. Sculpture at the main entrance to the Chalmers Technical University campus. A man and a woman on stilts in painted bronze. The sculptor is Stephan Balkenhol and the sculpture has stood here since 2003.

I can’t decide if the idea is that engineers and scientists are particularly able to walk on stilts (because of their ability to calculate how best to balance), or if the sort of jobs you can get after graduating from Chalmers are so precarious it’s like walking on stilts.

This is the sort of photo one takes when one has taken the wrong tram, got off at the wrong stop and realised one has ten minutes to kill (in the cold, cold morn) before the next tram back comes along. I’ll try for a better photo on a sunnier day later in the year. … Continue readingChalmers stilt-walkers

I love this bust of Carl von Linné (or Charlie Flax as I prefer to call him – it’s a literal translaton of his name), in the Botanical Gardens. Carl von Linné was the inventor of the Linnean taxonomy – the biological classification system still used today. … Continue readingCharlie Flax