Dear people: if you have a change, go / travel to Smögen, Sweden to see the Island of Light light art festival! Open until September 14th. It was such a joy! The idea of the festival is to create light art with nature, not just put an art piece in it. And what a nature Smögen has! Beautiful, steep cliffs everywhere, with surprise ravines and streams along them. An excellent site for light art. The only minus side of the festival is, that as a curator, I just cannot steal anything from there, since the artworks are so one with their environment.

Of course my camera isn't up to this task, so I only have few close to decent photos. First ones are from Yggdrasil, a piece by Slovenian artist Matej Bizovicar (faintly visible in the second photo). As many of the artworks, it's mainly built of trash found in the sea. It's impressive up close, but also worth seeing from the opposite shore, with the reflection forming roots to this tree.

Trip to Smögen made possible by the Finnish-Swedish Culture Foundation, thank you very much!

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