Launcing my new blog!

I thank all people who have found their way to my blog on this quirky web location. I've done some work and found a new home for my blog, and I hope you will stay in touch by visiting the new place too! I will let the posts on "Distractions" be and the posts will be awailable, but new posts will be posted on Urban ArtWorks from now on.

www.urban-artworks.com

 A companion site is also awailable on facebook and if you like it, please like it :-)

Cheers
Ole

Celebration of life

Late summer, I was visiting  a friend in Oslo. The weather was great, the city was busy and we tried to find somewhere to eat at Karl Johan (Oslo main street). While waiting for food, I looked around and my attention was drawn towards a statue in the park across the street, and people's reactions to it and interaction with it.

The statue depicts the pagan god Pan and Pan was known for his sexual powers. So there he was in the middle Oslo with an erected organ and was getting a lot of attention from people passing by, young and old. A great photo opportunity.

I loved to sit and watch the 'buzz' and the playful interaction the statue created with it's 'audience'. So simple and joyful. A lot of neglected public art would envy this attention. The statue is a creation of Per Ung who died recently (2013). Per Ung was/is probably one of the greatest norwegian artists of our time and I guess that he would love to see his statue becoming 'alive' this way.  A celebration of life.