Konstverk Hug

Hug

Artist: Peder Istad

Location: Lagan, Holmsborg Sinnenas Trädgård

Year: 2022

The artist's intention with the artwork "Hug" is that everyone who comes to Sinnenas Trädgård should be enticed to feel and hug. Hug should, as the name says, invite you to embrace while at the same time being a safe form to look at. The peculiarity of thought is that it can appear ambiguous, it encompasses the safe and contemplative, while at the same time it can arouse joy, associations and wonder.

He got the artist's idea and inspiration for the design of Hug from the world of play and animation, from his own childhood and now through his son. Stuffed animals and other toys can have health benefits where you can feel less alone and reduce existential anxiety. When you hug or hold, the stress level drops, and you give the care you yourself should need. This should have a calming effect. The shape of Hug can remind you of the small and strange minions figures or the teddy bear that you hugged tightly every night before falling asleep. The colors red and blue can also be direction markers or symbols of hot and cold.

Another source of inspiration for Hug is Johan Ottoson's autobiographical book "The Importance of Nature in a Life Crisis". There, the experience of meeting nature in the rehabilitation after a brain injury is described, where the author strongly emphasizes stone as one of the most important elements to be able to gradually get through grief and life crisis: "...it's as if stone can also absorb grief. Share it without being self-consumed… The stone is damaged, but there is also help if you wish…”

© Peder Istad / BUS / 2022

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