What’s happened since the last time? Well, I took my sister to a really fun event at the Nordic Museum last Tuesday. The luxury of drinking bubbles together and having time for a chat in the middle of the week. The building is so grand that it might be one of the most beautiful in Stockholm? They talked so beautifully about the background of Nordiska Ögonblick that it started when they had a water leak in the museum in 2021. They had to keep a lot of old photos. It also had to happen quickly, before the photo negatives were completely destroyed. They had to be frozen, preserved and digitized.
Being able to quickly seize opportunities. Or better said: trying to make something good out of everything that happens. Something bad can always bring something good when you do something. One door closes and the other opens. Or an event can start the ball rolling, which could be a door opening. Yeah, you probably get my point. I like that mentality and try to carry it with me often. Even if something bad actually happens, as in this case with a water leak, don’t forget that something good can come from it if you take it seriously. Cut to… it was the start of a photo exhibition in the museum.
I wonder if I want to achieve that things will always happen that are good and bad. It will be just like us deciding what it should mean and where it can lead. To package it. Why not try to make something good out of everything that happens? Something nice. Maybe it’s also because I always like to conceptualize things.
The Metamorphoser exhibition is therefore called the first among Nordic Moments. Metamorphoses means process or transformation and the photos had undergone an actual chemical process that turned them into art. Zinat Pirzadeh had written poetry for many of the images. So incredibly beautiful and appropriate. Photos that become memories. Photos that bring back memories. And images that can depict emotions. Perhaps that was also the reason why the exhibition touched me so much, that it was about transformation.
I include Zinat’s quote:
“No matter what happens… Never be a butterfly on a leash.”
Speaking of transformation and change, I’m actually working now. There are so many mixed feelings about leaving Flora at preschool and then going to work, but mostly things go well. It feels so grown up to leave kids at kindergarten and then go to work. But I’m happy with the decision to start halfway through to give myself a slow start and to be able to pick Flora up early to get started.
I walk with such light steps when I go to pick her up. I love picking her up, even though sometimes she gets a little sad when I come and realizes I was gone. But then she hugs each other tightly, very sweetly, and makes a special little sound that sounds like a mixture of laughter, crying and relief when she sees her pink Kånken in place and then the carriage. How she loves her cart. Oh my, my mother’s heart, but I am so proud of her. She is her own little human at kindergarten in the cute little herd of kids and nice teachers.
I want to capture the feeling and Flora’s laughter in the little moments when we play and go home after kindergarten. Small nice everyday moments that mean everything.
#Metamorphoser #November