At least, it’s A lion in winter. This lion is standing outside the main administrative building of Gothenburg University. Usually he looks nobel and imposing, but now he’s a bit silly under this cap of snow. … Continue readingThe lion in winter
Under a blanket of snow
This sculpture of a woman and child huddled together under a blanket of snow is at the foot of the Wallenberg monument (so this is a pendant to yesterday’s photo). The sculptor – of the whole monument – is Charlotte Gyllenhammarand the monment was set up in 2007. … Continue readingUnder a blanket of snow
Wallenberg memorial
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in Budapest in the closing stages of World War 2, whose efforts helped save the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis and their Hungarian allies in Nyilas (the Arrow Cross). I’d intended to post a photo of the Wallenberg monument on Holocaust Day (27 January) but didn’t have a decent photograph then. This was taken yesterday. … Continue readingWallenberg memorial
A giraffious smile
One of The Three Giraffes – sorry, The Three Graces – in Keillers Park has been given an eye, eyebrow and half a smiling mouth – so she’s smiling on at least one side of her face. Surely a gracious – or a giraffious smile.
See also Conversation in the Snow from last year. … Continue readingA giraffious smile
Flora’s Fountain face
One of four faces, lips grasping a fountain spout, around the basin of Flora’s Fountain, its features accentuated by the snow. … Continue readingFlora’s Fountain face
Has anyone asked for me?
Metal sheet iron sculpture with the words “Has anyone asked for me?” cut through it, lying on the ground outside one of the wings of the Konstepidemi (Art Epidemic) artists’ collective. I was asking, but no one was home.
Our local paper (Göteborgs-Posten) had led me to believe there was an open day at the Konstepidemin, but they were wrong and the place was largely deserted. … Continue readingHas anyone asked for me?
Asia wrapped up
Yesterday, on the World’s Five Corners fountain at Järntorget, I found the figure representing Asia wrapped in a blanket from one of the nearby restaurants and with a scarf around her neck. Someone had also given her a rose and (just out of shot) a bottle of beer.
For an earlier photo of another of the figures see Ironsquare. … Continue readingAsia wrapped up