Parks

Vigelandsparken is a park in Oslo where Gustav Vigeland, a Norwegian sculptor, basically got to draw the layout and fill it with his own sculptures. The park is filled with sculptures of people – naked people, actually – and the nice thing about them is they are ‘real’ people. Some are thin, some are chubby, some are old some are young. A favourite passtime for kids is standing in front of the sculptures doing the same pose (at least it used to be). There are all sorts of poses, kids running, grown men fighting, a mother holding her child, a small boy stamping his foot and screaming (this is the most widely known scupture, called ‘Sinnataggen’). The focal point of the park is the monolith, which also depicts people – it’s that tall thing in this picture (which could have been taken today, weatherwise, but is actually from May last year).

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And something more like a close-up:

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