Reflective Promenade

We have a promenade along the river. The facade of the building on the other side used to be rather boring, but in connection with the sculpture festival this year it has been made more interesting with another piece of art installation using mirrors organized in imitation of a barcode.

 

The photographer (i.e. me) facing one of the mirrors,
with the reflection of the park on the other side of the river in the background.

 

 

Photo taken from across the river. You can still see me in the mirror!

 

Military Music Parade walking down the Promenade.

 

More of the parade can be seen here (blog post from 31 May).

Looking Forward, Looking Back...

This "promenade" along the river is a lot more popular in the summer!
(Right now, it's pure ice...)



Back in the 19th century, the place was used differently:



Mural painting in the Town Hall.

UPDATE:
... Hm, I thought this was exactly the same bend in the river as on my photos above, but it turns out I was wrong about that! My aunt (born and raised in this town, and attentive follower of this blog!) telephoned me and pointed out that you don't see the church tower from that place, and moreover she had found photographic evidence in a book! My humblest apologies ;) even though I suspect it does not really matter all that much to my American and British friends... (It is still the same river, and the same town.) There were other paintings in the Town Hall that seemed to take liberties with the perspective of the church tower; and nearly all the old low wooden houses have been replaced with higher stone buildings since then.

Old black-and-white photo of the same place as that mural painting

(scanned from a book, and emailed to me by my aunt!)

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