Turku/Åbo City Hall seen from across the Aura river

[cimorene]

I love this building. I love this city.

This picture was taken on the way to the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum the other day, where I saw a photo exhibition called The Loveliest Girl in the World with bluesbell. It was a lot of stunning fantasy portraits of young women from a shelter in Helsinki, with fairy tale costumes and beautiful nature panoramas, blown up to, say, half the size of the livingroom wall. The gift shop wasn't selling any posters, which is too bad because I would have bought the shit out of that. Beautiful but disappointingly small - the exhibit, not the photos. They all fit in one room, a little hallway, and round the walls of the café, where some of the nicest photos were obscured by huge flocks of chattering senior citizens.