Many months ago now we had a weekend away in the countryside outside Stockholm. This was very exciting compared to the other bits of Swedish countryside we had been to because it was a bit open. Being outside and being able to see more the a few hundred metres is not something we are used to - normally there are a load of pine trees to block your view.
Järna is a concentration of Steiner schools and businesses run on Steiner principles - there is a biodynamic farm and mill. Being Steiner, all the buildings have organic shapes - heavy on curves and light on right angles. Spread across this 'campus' were a load of installations by American artist James Turrell. Best known for his ongoing work at Roden crater, he works with light and colour. Obviously this doesn't make him sound very special - what sort of artist doesn't work with light and colour? Turrell makes large installations which generally have lots of light (or sometimes very little light) and sometimes changing colours. He also make 'skyspaces', a large cylindrical roof with a circular opening in the roof. I assume the intention of to focus you on looking at the sky since that is the only place you can really look. This photo above is a sneaky one looking up in the skyspace and is rather reminiscent of 1960's Apollo mission pictures of the earth.
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