Big Heart of Humanity

Webcast from the webk vernissage on Friday, April 6

It starts with some sentences in Swedish, but then it’s all in English.

Yesterday evening everyone at Anafora went to the Ruin and started to clean up around the exhibition hall. Wow!

When fifty or more people work together, things happens fast.

Bishop Thomas’ presens is important and inspiring.

When it started to be dark some of the guys put up lights and started the generator, so we could continue.

Tomorrow Friday, is the vernissage — both here at Anafora and here on the web, read more. Welcome!

The first big print in place! In the beginning of March I asked for your help with choosing pictures for the yard. Today we put up the first one. Essam climbed and Annelie and I put the rope around the pillar.

The ground around the Ruin is leveled out with the big dumper.

Bishop Thomas and Abanub is discussing the work with making a floor in the outer part of the yard.

The road to the Ruin is cleaned, the donkey Freedom pulls the wagon.

Wires for the unconditional love is put up.

Emilia makes the oceans on Earth.

Annelie and three women from Alexandria are working with the pearls of unconditional love.

Checking the size of the Earth, maybe we need a bigger one … it depends on how may picture you will upload …

It’s very different to make an exhibition here than in Sweden. There I did all the work my self, or with help from my father and maybe a friend. Here it’s a collective work. I love that! It fits so vey well with Big Heart of Humanity :-)

Have been exercising my tripod around the church tonight. It’s magic here both in the sunshine and in the dark. And that is true both in a concrete and metaphoric way.

Right now I’m waiting for my friend Annelie to arrive from Sweden. Looking very much forward to have her here.

Working with the exhibition; it’s a challenging mix of playing and creating beauty, getting all the practical stuff together, navigate in a foreign culture and trying to communicate the essence of Big Heart of Humanity the best I can to a diverse audience.

A huge thank you to all of you who have uploaded pictures for the Big Heart of Humanity mobile, such a wonderful mixture of people and nature. But more pictures are needed for both the globe and the heart shape, so please contribute if you can!

The bougainvillea is flowering here at Anafora.

Something is in focus, maybe it dominates the picture, maybe not …

Out of focus, but shining anyway :-)

Two  intense days in Cairo, prolonging my visa, printing pictures, buying things for the exhibition and meeting couchsurfers.

It’s an entirely different thing to work with an exhibition in a city with twenty million people, traffic jam and everything organized in a way far from the swedish way of doing things.

Ashraf, who is printing my pictures on canvas, does the color calibration in his way, by changing the colors in my files, well it works, hopefully … I haven’t got all the prints yet.

Anafora has a flat in central Cairo, just three blocks from the Tahrir square. I took those pictures from the windows.

All the small streets around Tahrir are blocked, so I had to walk in a circle to get to the flat. And yes, there are a lot of cars in Cairo.

View from the window in the staircase.

In the evening I joined the Cairo couchsurfing group who had organized a boat trip on the Nile with a felucca, a traditional sailing boat.

The work with turning the ruin into an exhibition is in progress!

It’s a lot to do and it’s very different from working in Sweden, where I know how everything is organized … well, it’s interesting to navigate new waters :-)

Now I need your help – In the room on the picture above, I’m gong to make a huge, hanging sculpture with lots of small pictures. And I would love you, dear blog reader, to be a part of that!

Read more and upload under the menu item Exhibition (closed).

I’ve spent two weeks at Anafora and I start to see, feel and understand a little bit more. Tried to write a post about the place, but it’s hard to formulate what this is — it’s so much.

Decided to just publish photos today, you can watch them as a slideshow or a gallery, if you click the link above.

The exhibition is evolving, lot of thinking and planning. And just being with Big Heart of Humanity opening to what want to be expressed here, at this wonderful, beautiful, heartful place … will tell more soon.

And thank you all for you comments about the pictures for the yard! I will go to Cairo tomorrow and give them to the printshop.