I discovered some nice #urban #bicycle #infrastructure beneath a recently opened roundabout in my neighbourhood.
#stavanger #norway

Collaborating with @ankimal@pixelfed.social and #Stavanger kunstmuseum to exhibit the #ClimateEmergencyReadingRoom Oct 30 – Nov 2!

Thursday Oct 30, 1600–1900:
Official opening with a reading by Kristin Auestad Danielsen
Friday Oct 31, 1100–1500: Open reading room in Studio Nona
Saturday Nov 1, 1100–1600: Open reading room in Studio Nona. 1200–1500: Drop-in family workshop
Sunday Nov 2, 1100–1600: Open reading room in Studio Nona

The selection is a traveling reading room and exhibition initiated by Adam and Amelia Greenhall of Anemone. This edition is co-curated by the artist and curator Jessica Williams. Browse a selection of books, zines and pamphlets about the climate crisis that are especially gathered for the occasion and collectively chosen by Anemone and Williams. The edition of the selection is initiated by Bergen Art Book Fair for the 2025 edition and for Gloppen

The artist publications span #local issues, #renewable energy and #solarpunk, #political organizing, #grief, taking #action, #resource #sharing, and #community. The reading room publications are for viewing only.

Join us on Saturday, Nov 1 for a fun, family-friendly drop-in workshop at Stavanger Kunstmuseum! We’ll make postcards based on your thoughts, hopes, and dreams for our shared future with collage, drawings, and risograph printing the results!

I've been cycling to work for a year now. It is quite long (15 km x 2), but I've got an electric cycle, and most days it still gives more than it takes, like spotting this crow.

But, winter is tougher, I won't lie. Esp. the wind here in the western part of Norway can be unfriendly. I've bought a new battery for the coming winter, and I'll invest in a pair of googles, so I will be better prepared than last year.
And what has that to do with the crow?

If you asked me why I cycle I am not sure I could answer. You can steal my car, but if you steal my cycle I will howl - I did last time that happened in 2019. I have been cycling for almost 50 years, some years a lot, some others less. Cycling is part of my identity, who I am, I guess.

And the crow?

All of you following Gary Stevenson on YouTube saw what happened in his last video. He was brought to tears when he discovered the #taxwealthnotwork sticker out cycling. The cycle is the least important thing here of course, but seing, noticing, discovering the minute details of the city we live in is what gives cycling a perspective on life in general.
Most people need to travel by bus, tram, or car to get to their place, I am very content about being able to cycle to work, to the library, to the forest or the fjord or the cinema or ... cycling is part of the goal. Cycling is physical and three dimensional and cold and scary at times. But I move my own body.
I smiled when I discovered this crow, I felt something, it brought me happiness. Maybe that is why I cycle, to feel something when in movement. To see the smallness instead of the bigness? To feel being part of something minute instead of not feeling anything?
Not sure. My goal in life is to die cycling.

And by the way, I love crows, I can sing three songs where the crow is the main person.

#cycle #sykle #stavanger #kråke #bird #fugl #streetart #gatekunst #stencil

Street art is by nature a floating river. A new day, new art, old gone. I met this wall a couple of years ago, now it is replaced by some shiny, new buildings.
I would say this is something of the best traveling by bicycle, and a camera.

(And if you are a street artist, I speak for a lot of people when I say Thank you!)

#stavanger #norge #norway #streetart #gatekunst #bybildet #cityscape