Myrmänniskan / The Mire Man

Public commission Hudiksvalls sjukhus 2024

The mire man is a sculpture based on the conservation and caring potential of the peat in the bog and offers another room for the hospital's visitors. The bog is a necessary organ in the surrounding landscape around Hudiksvall, which retains moisture and cleans the water. The bog also preserves organic matter for an eternity, through its chemical composition. It offers a different time beyond the human lifespan, which the sculpture wants to accentuate by creating a caring enclosure for different forms of organic material, e.g. a human head. Give a function to the hospital that demonstrates its main purpose: the preservation and maintenance of organic life.

The Mire Man is a bronze sculpture created from cast blocks of peat. It can be viewed from a distance, but can also be entered. The sculpture invites movement, imagination and use. Implies a kind of bodily position that is possible to assume in relation to the sculpture. Creates a room that the visitor can temporarily enter, be enveloped in and leave the outside world for a while. Another kind of reality.