'Fauna' - sculpture by Swedish artist Tilda Lovell (2010)
This sculpture first appeared in Borås in connection with a sculpture festival in 2010, and was then standing outside the Art Museum. Since then, it has been moved a couple times (at least), to suddenly appear in a different place - in my humble opinion, making it a bit extra spooky...
I just encountered it again today, near the river - and couldn't recall if I've seen it in that exact spot before or not...
It's not one of my favourite sculptures, and I've never understood its context. But going back to the 2010 sculpture festival brochure now, I learned (or perhaps re-learned?) that it was inspired by a detail in the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, from way back around 1490-1510.
I soon gave up on trying to locate it in the triptyk (I haven't got a screen large enough)* - but there is a detail picture included in Wikipedia where it is included, next to a giraffe:
I'm still not sure if I find that really helpful; but at least now I know that the creature didn't just appear from nowhere in the brain of a Swedish sculptor in 2010.
Whether back in 1490 it appeared from Nowhere for Hieronymus, I dare not say.
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* PS - Just after I pressed PUBLISH, I suddenly recognised the white giraffe + the two-legged dog in the triptyk. They are in the upper third of the narrow triptyk panel to the left.
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