ometimes you just never know what you’re going to find. Someone says: That rock’s looking at me! And you look closer and you see … faces. Faces everywhere. Calm faces, angry faces, wise faces, sleeping faces, troubled faces, amused faces.
The faces are to be found painted on the rocks bordering Dr Allards gata up against Landal Egnahem between Dr Fries torg and Wavrinskys plats. Painted (so the artist says) with eco-friendly paints that will fade with time leaving no poisons, they were made during 2011, probably before the summer. The artist is Joakim Stampe, a performance artist from Göteborg.
There’s a gallery of his work here: http://gallery.me.com/joakimstampe
You’ll find an article about his street art (in Swedish) from our local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten
(published 20 February 2010) here: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/1.316186-han-lar-ut-laglig-gatukonst
And there’s a film of the whole sequence of the Dr Allards gata paintings on YouTube (not posted by the artist and sadly not showing the artist at work) here: http://youtu.be/r8B9WbM-h1Y
ast night we had our first real frost – unusually late in the year. This morning I took the opportunity to go photo-hunting in Central Gothenburg’s pride – Trädgårdsföreningen (the Garden Society Park). The final picture shows the rising sun reflected in a window of the Garden Master’s House (Direktörsvillan). You may be able just to make out a tower in the reflection – it is the bell tower of the Catholic Church at Heden.
n Sunday 2nd October our friend Lena C took us mushrooming in the mossy-floored pine woods north-east of Gothenburg where she grew up. Mushrooms everywhere. In about 1½ hours we picked a mass of funnel chantarelles. (Which then took 4 hours to clean and prepare when we got home.) It was a beautiful autumn day – misty and damp to begin with; later the sun came out and filtered down through the trees. Very peaceful except briefly when a family with young children came by.
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