Anders in Wonderland
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Stopped 23.09 June 20 to take a pic. Realized only later that it was just at the summer solstice, when the earth tilts it northern pole closest to the light…
This year I will celebrate an alternative midsummer. First year ever in Västmanland. And I do look forward to it.
I came walking, as so many times before, through the deep forest, this time around Riddarhyttan. In the distance I could hear the sound of a rockband playing outdoors. The sound come closer and closer.
And in a bend, in the middle of the woods, this giant house appears in front of me:
In these parts, so full of old industrial memories, I thought this must be yet another one. But when I get closer I see it is newly built! And when I peep around the corner I see:
A rockband playing for the forest and 1 listener! I go up to the audience and ask;
“What is this?”
“The Theater Machine” she answers.
The band is standing in front of a glass facade and inside there is another old house.
And as if this is not surrealistic enough, as if I have fallen down one of Carrol Lewis’s rabbitholes, the audience asks me:
“And are you … the pilgrim?”
“Yes, hm, that could be me…”
I have arrived totally unaware at the Theater-Machine in Riddarhyttan.
They invite me to an alternative midsummercelebration whit a raising of a totem-pole. I promise to come. Then I cant talk anymore with the audience as she suddenly says:
“Now I need to get up and sing.”
I look around in the house and the thought of having ended up in Wonderland gets support.
Tomorrow it is midsummer’s eve. But not celebrated with traditional costumes in old timber houses á la Dalarna. Now we are in a totally different land. Wonderland!
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