Konst på Hökarängen Tbana Hem station

I love the color panels from this view although the iphone is not really suited for such distance in dim light.

 The plaque about the art in this station doesn't mention the lighted hallway that is this exit, the lights dim and change colour continually.

Zok has been gone from Hobart for about five weeks now, and I am having a day of missing him, missing Stockholm, even missing summer (although really so far Stockholm summer is very similar to Hobart winter, just with more daylight).

I thought I'd finally do a post about our subway station.

I love ours, at first I didn't appreciate it, because the art is subtle, and meant to be seen from certain angles and in a certain light.

The platform looks much better if you stand to the side and crouch down, or if you see it from far away so you can see the mathematical precision of it.

I need to sign up for online Swedish lessons as well, although as my enthusiasm last year amounted to nothing but frustration and perceived failure, I am finding it hard to get started...

But I do have a grey, rainy day to help me out.

I thought I'd try to get some facts to compare between Blackmans Bay, Tasmanian and Hökarängen, Sweden.  Oddly they are similar in certain ways, both are on the fringe of a larger borough.  Blackmans Bay is part of Kingston which is reported as one of the fastest growing in Tasmania, as is Farsta in Sweden. Both suburbs are about 14 km, from the town center, and both take between about 12-15 minutes to get to the center of town.  One by car and one by train.

Kingston is reported to have around 20,000 people currently, while Farsta had around 46,000 reported in 2004.  Farsta being 15.40 km²- while Kingston has 717 km squared- so quite a density difference.

As far as the station art there is quite a lot in this location, the coloured panels that can be seen both directions and follow the shape of the platform, the bronze sculpture that makes the mid-way point (very helpful for the short trains) and the hallway exit with the lights.
The plaque explaining the art is one of the more informative ones as well-
Explaining that the artist did take in the shape of the station into account when planning out the installation.  I also like when there is just a piece of art - but I really do appreciate most when the artist(s) took free reign creatively with the whole space.  As if the station itself was a gallery or part of a museum, but of course with more danger as all the art is subjected to thousands and thousands of people each day.
*I wrote 'thousands' and maybe that is a good estimate for this one station, but the day I posted this I read that the subways lines (local) do an estiamted 1.203,000 passengers per day, on 7 lines with 505 train cars.
The busses carry 1.125,000 persons per day via 515 lines and 2,211 buses, the small 'salt' trains do 156,000 with 10 lines and 180 cars, and lastly the commuter train has 4 lines, 135 cars and carry 299,000 per day.
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