Stapelbäddsparken entrance, Malmö, Sweden (Calatrava’s Turning Torso Tower in the Background), photo taken: 2011.
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Turning Torso - The neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Malmö
Turning Torso – The neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Malmö
The tallest building in Scandinavia was built and is owned by Swedish cooperative association HSB. It is regarded as the first twisted skyscraper in the world. It was designed by Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter Santiago Calatrava and officially opened in 2005.
Turning Torso is based on a sculpture by Calatrava, also called Twisting Torso, a white marble piece based on…
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The thing that gets me about history and humanity is that you never know what is immortalized, and the things that will be immortalized are things you would never think.
I saw a person sharing a new tattoo, and it was one of Onfim's drawings. A boy who lived so long ago he is barely a blip now, but his drawings meant so much to people that somebody is now permanently marked in their skin with one of those drawings. Do you ever look at the things you make and just sit there and wonder if this is the thing that future people look at? Do you ever look at your art, your writing, your schoolwork, or anything that is yours and just wonder who will find it, who will fall in love with a piece of your humanity and become overwhelmed with emotion over? It's not unlikely. It's not totally unlikely that somebody will find a piece of you in the distant future and devoid of any other context of who you were will still love you because you were here. You were here, and you are still here, even hundreds or thousands of years later. Treat yourself with the same love that so many have for dear Onfim.
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I love drawing his fluffy hair.
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