Flight Paths

I got the 39th cancer drug treatment in the afternoon. For the first time I went to the hospital by bus and tram. After the injection I went to take some photos of the newish installation near the Radius house. It is Heli Ryhänen's art work called Flight Paths. This is how she describes the installation:


TAYS (Tampere University Hospital) clients and their support networks are going through difficult personal life situations. A more hopeful outlook for the future is needed alongside recovery. The work is a metaphor for life and new possibilities. In my work ceramic birds spread out into their surroundings: they explore, knock, observe and take flights. Steel arches depicting flight paths attach to the ground in the clearing, opening out to the sides and rising upwards. Five of the birds are perched on the roofs and walls of surrounding buildings. The birds in the work are species that thrive in the forests, parks and meadows of Pirkanmaa. Among the breeding and relatively abundant species, the following have made it into the collection: eagle owl, skylark, woodcock, blackbird, black woodbecker, three toed woodbecker (endangered), nut cracker, swift (e) and white wagtail. The visitor to the work is a rare but almost annual occurrence in Pirkanmaa, the striking-looking hoopoe. 


Then hubby came and we voted in advance for European elections in the hospital before driving home.


I was very tired in the evening, as always after the treatment.


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