At the Modern Art Museum, Moderna Museet, in Stockholm sometimes in 1979...
This photo is taken by friend Helene, who loved books and taking photos... and had even her tiny toilet filled with bookshelves from the floor to the roof... Those days she worked at the Olof Palme office in Stockholm... But now she has passed away already... She had a antique shop for years selling all kind of books... and she told the best selling books were those she had in some plastic bags for just some small money...
And who could these boys be - I don't know none of them - do they know me??? However, I never painted or draw anything at home as a child or young person so this picture is somehow funny and makes me ask questions... I don't have any memory of anything like this... However, I am only about six years old... And how come during my adult life I have had problems with two men at the same time... that is a difficult thing to experience...
It is just funny that I happen to have a male friend whose friend is a real photographer who also had a shop for old books and not only for them but even some exhibitions in his shop... He has taken a great photo of a worried person...
The photographer:
And in his shop he once had an exhibition where he had paintings of Kallio Church:
The exhibition in the book shop of this photographer:
I happened to visit the his exhibition when they had this painting of Timo Pajunen there...
In the house to the left here there used to be the butcher's shop as well as the milk shop we visited maybe almost daily... there was also the Kallion pharmacy... later there was even some Igor's Jewelry... Sometimes we went to the Hakaniemi market hall. To the right next to the church there was the fire-station with fire-cars and ambulances...
I suppose this painting is made from Karhupuisto - the park of the bear... there is even a statue of a bear... Thanks for this photo of this painting...
Kallio Church became the second State Church (Ev.lut. Church) in Finland recently.
The funerals of Mr. Kalevi Sorsa where hold there and then a lot of international statesman and politicians were present.
In Kallio Church there is a wooden altar-relief where the working class inhabitants of Kallio have been the models for this relief. Someone could know at least somebody on that altar-relief...
Now they have built a graveyard for maybe about 2000 urns under this church... and those graves are not eternal... Who does not have an eternal grave for an urn? Is it maybe so that some of our present important persons, the Somebodies of our days, are maybe not regarded to be so important of coming generations and their urns can then be moved from this State Church graveyard? Whose grave and for what reason? And who will be the ones to decide?
Kallio is also the home area of our former President, Mrs. Tarja Halonen, who has been called both the "Kallion friidu" and the "Mumin mammy"...
Kallio area used to be the living are of working class people. There has been the Sörnäinen prison... But it has turned to an expensive area and some say there live a lot of intellectuals of our days...
I was born to the Kallio Vicarage, but I even had a home in Eira. My grandmother lived still on the address in the same corner where two policemen were shot in Tehtaankatu Street by some Danish criminal. That home of mine didn't lie far away from the Russian Embassy... even the office of the Red Cross lied in Tehtaankatu Street... It was said he came from the Palace Hotel that lies next to the old market-hall, Kauppahalli, here... not far away from the market place... and the Presidential Palace...
On the area where there now lies the Russian Embassy there was earlier the hospital where I am born... it was the hospital for educating midwives and my grandfather's brother was the leading doctor there. I have heard that there was fire in the stove when I was born and that it was not usual those days to have single rooms but the coming mothers shared bigger rooms... I am born on the Pentecost Sunday exactly at 12.00 o'clock according to my birth certificate... Maybe I could say I am born on Russian soil as my other grandparents came to Finland from St. Petersburg in 1920, but they were not ordinary Russians and my grandmother is a descendant of France Huguenot families. Even Fabergé family is Huguenots.
Opposite to the market-hall... and even opposite to the building of the old shipping company here, Finnish Steamship Company, Suomen höyrylaiva Oy - where even I have worked some short time - stays a some short time big cruisers... and mostly with a lot of huge rich tourists... Not far away lie the Olympia and Viking terminals for ferries...
This is my short life story... I was born to the Kallio Vicarage as my grandfather was the Vicar and the County Dean in Helsinki and they lived in Kallio after having lived some time in the Agricola Church annex building.
Later i lived in Merikatu 3, Kaivopuisto-Eira, Helsinki 14. Once when I was going to travel to Stockholm I saw some expensive travel brochures in Russian and in English for free outside the internet telephone in this ferry terminal. And I still cannot understand why there was a photo of my home house in the brochures...
A lot of strange things have happened in my life during some time ago, but they are an other story... Even this is a strange coincidence... This is the path number to the grave I visit... and the person who lies in this grave for sure visited the White House as an invited guest in 1962 in the times of the Cold War... And MyHeritage recently picked his flight documents with his name, address, passport and flight number... and from an estate after a relative I found five photos taken of him... and one of them is a funny one with some big advertisement board where there is some picture and the text U.S. Army in the lower part of the board and in the upper part of the board there is the text ''We Want You''... And in an other photo of him there is the USA Statue of Liberty in the background... This is to me something too strange to be true, but it is all true...
21.6.2014 / IG
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