Birthday
Celebrated my father's 70th birthday today. Corinne, Leo, Sally and I picked up my mum and dad at their house in Åkarp and then we went to Ringsjö Wärdshus for lunch. Don't think I've been since two of our oldest friends, Jens and Malin, had their wedding reception there, 13 years ago. Dad got a lithograph by Gustav Rudberg and an original colour crayon drawing by Leo Tängermark, featuring a game of football with the artist himself and his grandparents.
After the main course, Leo and I went down to the lake and talked about how the waves look like white geese, which is what we call them in Swedish on a windy day. We looked at the break-water and how the waves were higher on the other side from us.
We spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening at Wanås Castle, which was founded in 1994 as a result of a completely mad idea that Marika Wachtmeister got. Luckily, she seems to be one of those people who fail to realize that certain projects are just too wild to become reality.
Wanås Foundation is a castle with a surrounding park. In the park you'll find some 30 permanent works of art, all of which created for that very patch of the park. Over 100 artists have exhibited there, and some of the artists with permanent installations are Jenny Holzer, Per Kirkeby and Antony Gormley. (Personal favourites of mine, all three.)
I think we all had a marvellous time in the park, each in his or her own way – including Sally, who spent most of the time intently gazing at the treetops and the sky. What better works of art?
After the main course, Leo and I went down to the lake and talked about how the waves look like white geese, which is what we call them in Swedish on a windy day. We looked at the break-water and how the waves were higher on the other side from us.
We spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening at Wanås Castle, which was founded in 1994 as a result of a completely mad idea that Marika Wachtmeister got. Luckily, she seems to be one of those people who fail to realize that certain projects are just too wild to become reality.
Wanås Foundation is a castle with a surrounding park. In the park you'll find some 30 permanent works of art, all of which created for that very patch of the park. Over 100 artists have exhibited there, and some of the artists with permanent installations are Jenny Holzer, Per Kirkeby and Antony Gormley. (Personal favourites of mine, all three.)
I think we all had a marvellous time in the park, each in his or her own way – including Sally, who spent most of the time intently gazing at the treetops and the sky. What better works of art?
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