Monday, 9 December 2019

December 9 - Monday


Red granite sculpture in three parts, Sofiero Palace Park, Helsingborg

This sculpture is in three parts. The ear was lying further away from the other two parts - too far apart for me to catch all three in the same photo, so I made this collage. When I was there, I had no idea what it was supposed to symbolize. I still don't, really - but I managed to find that the artist is a Canadian, George Rammell, and the sculpture (entitled something like "spirit of the tumulus") inspired from old Norse mythology, and the giant Ymer (Ymir). To cut a long story short, the world was created from Ymir's dead body.

7 comments:

MadSnapper said...

I must say this is strange to me... interesting though

DawnTreader said...

Sandra, the sculpture certainly gives rise to more questions than answers...

DawnTreader said...

It certainly made me curious when I saw it - and again when I look back at my photos several months later! :)

Amy said...

wow that's neat, I wonder what they would look like put together.

Ginny Hartzler said...

Goodness! I could tell right away that the pieces were done that way deliberately. The ear is so realistic.

Graham Edwards said...

I never ceased to be amazed by mythology.

DawnTreader said...

Same here, Graham :)

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