Touched By Flowers

Sometimes when I walk through the park in Tungelsta I will stop and have a look at the Bronze sculpture made by Klara Kristalova. It's called Rörd av blommor, or Touched By Flowers. A very appropriate sculpture as it stands in the garden park and that Tungelsta once was famous for all it's greenhouse nurseries, (more than one hundred). The sculpture was vandalized back in 2007 and when Klara came back to fix it I met her and we talked a bit. Since then she has had exhibitions all over the world.

Touched By Vandals (again)

For the second time in just a month, the artwork Touched By Flowers made by the artist Klara Kristalova has been vandalized. This time it will be harder to repair and in the end it will probably be moved from it's position in the Tungelsta park to a new museum (where no one will see it), as the Municipality Haninge Kommun don't want to pay for any more repairs. If you are interested you can see my previous photos regarding this here.

Touched by an artist and a welder

Earlier in the year the bronze sculpture Touched by Flowers at the park in Tungelsta was vandalised. Now it was time for the artist Klara Kristalova and the bronze casting specialist Thomas Broman to repair the artwork. Janne Sandh from the group that sponsored the artwork asked me to come down and take some photos. Here you see Thomas and Klara, (with a print of one of my photos) discussing the repair work. Guess who forgot to bring his weld safety mask and had to drive away and buy a new one? Obviously Thomas the Welder! While he was gone Klara told us about the time she was arrested by the police in London. Late at night she took a flower from a flower bed in a park. The British police saw her, and a bobby chased her down, and put her in the back of a police truck. At the station she was booked, photographed and had her fingerprints taken. Then she spent the night locked up, only to be released the following morning without any charges. The stories you here when taking photos never seeses to amaze me. When Thomas came back everything went smooth and he finished the repair job by spraying copper nitrate on the artwork and using a burner to get the correct bronze tone.