BRASSICA 2021
Corten steel sculpture, Källby park, Götene municipality.
A common sight in the spring and summer is that the ground around Källby is covered by bright yellow rapeseed fields. On the way to Kinnekulle, it gives the impression of a framing, a beginning, that you are about to enter a new world. One might think that it was cultivated just to give us this experience, but the reason is oil, a basic food.
Rapeseed enriches our lives with its color. It is pollinated by bees, an ecosystem service that provides honey and contributes to biodiversity.
The work shows the different stages of rapeseed through the flower. The flower is the adult plant that carries the seed to the next generation. My flower represents all stages of development.
The artwork is in corten steel, for the color, which like the real rapeseed fields lights up the surroundings. Just like a living plant, corten steel undergoes change. It gets a patina that by itself becomes more beautiful with time.
The place is dynamic in the sense that many people are in motion there, a place they come to and that they leave. The petals point in accordance with the four directions, as a landmark for people in motion.
The sculpture helps to give the area the character of a meeting place, a center. It is a conciliatory color click that plays against the green shades of the park.
The flower represents growth and all that it give.