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"...their most secret thoughts meet as when two colours meet and flow into each other on the wet paper of a schoolboy's painting..."

[excerpted from 'The Couple' by Tomas Transtromer, the Swedish poet awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature - finally! - (from 'The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations' by Robert Bly, 2004)]

[on a divider wall outside of Goteborg, Sweden]

metal-liturgy

 the french artist Francois Morellet's inter-locking stick metal "Sphere" [1962] floats in one corner - a primitive steel hive model for a futuristic orbiting space habitat...

the german artist Gunther Uecker's "White Field" [1983] of swirling nails maps the galaxies in a square studded universe - where man can orbit only on the minutest speck of iron dust...

[both pieces are exhibited at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Danmark]

pre-occupy any space...

 from the cozy compactness of a single city bench in copenhagen...

to the barren brushland beside looming suprarchitecture in barcelona...

manifest the urgent need to stake out one's piece of ground, if not one's peace of mind...