Knotted Gun

Arrived in Malmö to rain and grey skies, so my plan for a little walk around the city for an hour was scuppered!
So ended up finishing a presentation and working on my performance review documentation instead
My colleague Ingar arrived early evening and by this time it had stopped raining so we went for a short stroll before dinner.

This is the sculpture "Non-Violence", more commonly called the "Knotted Gun" by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd and it couldn't be more appropriate considering the events in Las Vegas.

Reuterswärd made this sculpture after his friend, the singer and peace activist John Lennon, was shot dead in 1980. Yoko Ono asked him to commemorate Lennon.

The bronze sculpture, is of a giant Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards

Initially, the sculpture was placed in the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park, New York, across the street from where Lennon and Yoko lived.

In 1988, the Government of Luxembourg donated the bronze sculpture to the United Nations.

There are 30 copies of the non violence sculpture around the world, ten of them in Sweden, and one in Beijing. The UN sculpture is the original.

It was so dull and dreary that I decided to change this to mono, although it has nothing to do with the MM theme of "entrance" apart from being near the entrance to the harbour! Does that count?