Friday, February 13, 2026

Icelandic wall art and statues

Ice cream with Vivien for brunch then jigsaw. Feel I should be doing something but can't be bothered.

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Reykjavik is a city of statues and wall art. Here are a few of my favourites.

There was a QR code on this bench so you could listen to poetry by Tomas Godmundsson.

You can't see this one very well but it's a stone from Hiroshima commemorating the victims of the 1945 bombing. Every year on August 6th a candle lighting ceremony of remembrance takes place with the candles being released onto the lake.



I don't know what this man did to upset the sculptor to make stop halfway! Apparently the statue is most often called The Unknown Bureaucrat.






1 comment:

Boud said...

That's some wonderful art there. Thanks for bringing it to us.