Copenhagen

Copenhagen was the last stop on my Scandinavian sojourn and for me definitely the most fun. I made a conscious decision to skip most museums, mainly from museum burnout. Art is important to me and modern art in particular, but when you start seeing the works of the same group of artists in museums around the world, you just want to see something different. I think in the future I'm going to start aiming to check out more live performances in the places I visit in order to get a better sense of what's going on there. If I go for visual art, I'll aim for very contemporary or galleries.

Most of my time was just spent walking around the city, which reminded me of a slightly larger version of Amsterdam, only without (or without as many) canals and with more colorful buildings. While Stockholm and Gothenburg offered great design in terms of furniture, the designware in Copenhagen for sale ranged all across the board from every kind of decoration, lightingware, furniture also, and every sort of gadget, really fun stuff to gaze at and play with in the shops. I ended up buying a pair of jeans and sunglasses!

I met up with a friend, MH who I was in school with in the Hague and we caught up about life after graduation. It always seems like people who consider themselves creative artists (she and I) experience a bit of a shock getting out of school. School ends up being a fairly strong support network in these situations, but ultimately of course it IS for the best to leave the nest behind.

A little architectural surprise for me was just on my way home at the Copenhagen Kastrup Airport. The building looked new and fresh, but when I actually got into the branch of the terminal for my departing flight, suddenly it became really spectacular architecturally. The rest of the airport gave no hint of this! I put my bags down and actually started walking backwards on the people-mover just to get a couple shots with my camera. One of the shots is included above.