The artist stands ready to serve his community

This picture is a hjortron, or cloudberry. There are many pictures of hjortron on the net, but that is the one which best, I think, illustrates a proposal made by Tord Pettersson, an artist in Gällivare, who thinks the 45 road up through the depopulated regions of inner Lapland is dull. So he wants to put up a sculpture at one of the rest stops: a two meter high phallus with a giant cloudberry on the top. “It would provoke a debate even in our liberated time”, he told the local paper and “draw attention to the mulitfaceted role of the artist”.

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