Flower heaven

I paused party preparations and drove to Tampere because of the hairdresser and to shop some stuff for Saturday. I dropped by in Finlayson area on my way. I was in one of the exhibition halls when took this picture - a part of the sculpture called  Flower heaven – urban flowers can be seen from the the window .

Pekka Jylhä executed this interesting and very different sculpture for display at Central Square in Tampere exclusively during the EU summit meetings in 1999. Pekka Jylhä describes the background of the sculpture:

“Flower heaven – urban flowers aims at lightness as a reaction to the heaviness of life. It aspires to freedom, flying and hovering. Like a shaman – freeing his own body from its weight, flying to another world, another level of consciousness, where he could find powers to transform reality. There are moments when humanity seems condemned to heaviness, and the weight of matter almost crushes us. In the words of Kafka: I talked about a shaman and a hero of fairytales; the suffered lack that is transformed into lightness and makes it possible to fly into a realm where all lack disappears magically. It is these thoughts, among others, that gave birth to my work Flower heaven – urban flowers.” 

Then some gardening. Emma came home late in the evening. Bliss.


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