Skywatch / No Limit 2020 (6)

Monday this week was another sunny autumn day, and I decided to go back once again to the Norrby district and try to find a mural that I missed on my previous walks. On my way, I also snapped photos of the railway station and other views that happened to catch my eye.

The railway station

Someone commented on a previous post that I should walk this way more often - so I did!

The tower sticking up belongs to the oldest church in town (17th century)

Having passed under the railway to the other side:
Here is a graffiti wall where anyone is allowed to be creative.
(I'll take you back there in a separate post.)

Artist: Elina Metso

This is the mural that I managed to miss on my previous walks. Not really surprised that I did not find it earlier, because there is no sidewalk on the other side of the road from it (and a road with very heavy traffic). The only way I could take a photo was from the sidewalk just underneath, and bending my neck backwards... 

The photo below is copied from the official No Limit Facebook page. I still don't understand where they took that photo from. The skylift used to paint it, perhaps? (There are no buildings on the other side of the road - only a steep narrow strip of woodland, as in the background of the photo with the graffiti wall.)

 

Artist: Delicious Brains

 

The 'tower' in the background is a district heating plant.

A mural from a previous art festival, some years ago.
I think maybe its colours have faded a bit.

On my way back home - "skywatching" from a bridge over the railway

No Limit 2020 (5)

 My walk among the finished murals from the No Limit 2020 street art festival continued:

Artists: Korallpionen & Rickman

The artists Korallpionen & Rickman contributed two murals that they painted together.  Both of those were nearly finished already when I first saw them (on the 3rd day of the festival), so you may recognize them.

This one, found close to the Family Centre for the district,  seems to kind of incorporate the existing pedestrian crossing nearby.

Artists: Korallpionen & Rickman

And this one, entitled "Mother Earth", makes use of the green grass next to it.

Artist: Appear37 (Adam Algotsson)

 

"A graffiti artist from Borås who now gets to paint on a large scale on home turf. Adam found graffiti in his teens and got his first paid commission from the same police officer who had once arrested him for painting illegally. He has since created over 100 commissioned murals for both businesses and individuals."

Artist: Amara por Dios

 "Amara Por Dios is an artist born and raised in Stockholm, who has spent several years living and working in London. --- In 2014, she was named by The Guardian as one of Britain's top female street artists."

Somewhere I read that this mural was given the title "The Journey to Earth". I like that - it sets my imagination spinning with wider interpretations of the theme.

 

Artist: Vickan

"Vickan is a tattoo and street artist. With her imaginative and characteristic style, she has quickly established herself as a name in the Swedish street art scene. Vickan is originally from Boden and is today based in Stockholm."

... And her mural somehow grew on me when I took a few steps back and looked at it from the nearby playground...

Artist: Huge

And this is what became of "the blue gable" that can be seen from the main street nearby: A sun-wind-and-water theme, painted in a way that makes it look almost three-dimensional.

 

 

No Limit 2020 (4)

Picking up where I left off in the previous post, on my walk to look at the finished new murals, created in mid September. As I had forgotten to bring my map (acquired during the weekend they were being painted), I had to rely on memory to find them - so of course I again missed two or three. But with the ones I found, I tried to remember to also take photos including a bit of their surroundings or "context".

Artist: Etile

"Etile uses a style called Calligrafitti, which is a mix between calligraphy and grafitti."

(Nature's own artwork)

Artist: Q

"Q is a versatile artist who can be found in a wide range of mediums, such as murals, photography, film and sculpture."

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More murals to come... (For some reason I'm finding it a very time-consuming "trial and error" kind of challenge these days to create posts with many images in the same post.)

No Limit 2020 (3)

Tuesday this week was another sunny day, and I decided to go back to have a look at the finished murals from last weekend's street art festival. This time, I chose a different way to get there - instead of crossing the railway by the main road bridge, I walked alongside the railway for a bit, and then passed under it through a pedestrian underpass. The photos in this post will be of things I saw along the way. (I'll save the new murals for yet another post.)

Autumn colours are beginning to take over. Near the railway station there is this cliff covered in ivy which turns red in the autumn. Up on top, there is a statue in commemoration of a ski mountaineer and adventurer named Tomas Olsson who died in 2006.

Walking along the railway, and looking across the tracks to the other side, I noticed that I could see a mural from a previous art festival. Using the zoom on my camera, I got quite close, without taking an actual detour to it now. It's supposed to illustrate a scene in a classic book (The Adventures of Nils Holgersson) by Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, way back in 1909. (Artist: TelmoMiel 2017)

I think the decorations in this pedestrian underpass are new, but I'm not sure. It's been a while since I last walked this way. On the other side of it, there are two new installations, though. The huge fluffy balls up in the trees (made of textile) I think are only temporary. I had read about there being lights inside them, but that was hard to see in broad daylight. (Artist: Malin Bobeck Tadaa)

The (playground?) animal sculpture may be meant to stay there longer (?)
(Artist:Tim Timmey)

Up a hill, and while waiting for green light at the pedestrian crossing I snapped this sneak peek of the Calligrafitti mural by artist Etile... You'll get a better look in another post! :)