Lyngvaer

The sculptor chose to leave this piece "untitled"; the locals, rather unkindly, decided it needed a title, "The Shower Cubicle". I was berated by a local tour guide when expressing my opinion that I thought it was a really interesting take on the interaction of a work of art and its context, in this case, the imposing mountainous landscape. She said it was a waste of 800,000 kronor (around £70,000); I found her outrage somewhat bemusing considering the way that the Norwegian government squanders vast amounts of its, admittedly virtually limitless, oil wealth on building spurious bendy bridges and tunnels and undertaking to metal all dirt tracks in Lofoten regardless of how many people ever use them. Now, I don't want to get all arty and pretentious here, but the idea of a semi-reflective, sometimes transparent, at others opaque structure placed in such a perfect landscape seems to me a pretty reasonable response to the challenge of improving on, complementing, or at least not detracting from perfection. Admittedly it somehow looks like an oddly placed flat screen TV from a distance, but one day I would love to build a house like that!