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Art the community tagged “stockholm” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 13

Orpheus' well by Carl Milles, 1936

It's Orpheus, the one whose music could raise the dead — the figures around him are supposed to be souls pulled up by the sound. It stands right outside the concert hall, so the joke, if it is one, was on purpose.

Erisava: Would this get built today, right in the middle of town?

#fountain #bronze #mythology #sculpture #stockholm
Erisava Staff Jul 21

Järnpojke by Liss Eriksson, 1967

According to Wikipedia he's only 15 centimetres tall — the smallest public monument in all of Stockholm. Apparently people leave him coins, and in winter someone knits him tiny hats and scarves.

Erisava: It's the size of my hand and buried in coins. Why do we pay the tiny one?

#sculpture #miniature #coins #stockholm