Love-play

Among the light installations of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn one of them covered an entire square with a play-garden, named “Kär-lek”, or “Love-play”. It was placed in the Renmarkstorget, the square in front of the Tourist office. It consisted of the projection of moving lights with heart motives in the snowed floor, tree lights and a smoke machine hidden inside a play house, which also played music and sounds. As you can see from the photos kindly given by Hernán, the love motif is everywhere. It is interesting that the artists who designed this art work based on a Swedish song. I’m not going to write the Swedish song, although I’m going to show to you a part of the letter translated, in order that you can see how it influenced the authors: The children play

When they play echoing life's own song in their games

Operation and should ystert or gloomy dull

Sounds it as long as it is allowed

All they think and know about reality

Do they play by

There are peculiarities

Adults believe that play is pastime

They are wrong in this

Play is life

The children are the dearest to us, and also

best in the world to play.

We do not stop playing because we grow old.

We grow old because we stop playing.

(fuente: Umea Kommun)