I spent last weekend with friends in the old town of Ribe in Southern Jutland. We went to visit our friend’s childhood home – the house was our base for exploring the town, where a string of witch trials took place in the 1600s, which in 2020 was commemorated with the opening of HEX – Museum of Witch Hunt.
Here are my friends looking at the “gallows hill” where the unlucky people accused of witchcraft were burnt — only a couple hundred meters from the house we stayed in.
“It’s not as tall as I thought it would be”.
On Sunday we travelled back to Copenhagen, which coincided with “hourly comics day” (which this year, unbeknownst to me, had been moved a week to Feb 8), and it was suggested by my friend Mari Ahokoivu — who is also a fan of drawing challenges and sketchbook practices — that we do it together.
I’ve never done this challenge before and I loved it. It was perfect for a travel day where many hours were spent in a rumbling train. Even a dramatic three-year-old with a booming voice became a source of inspiration rather than a pestilence. That’s the beauty of making art — it truly can turn pain into poetry ...
So below here you will find my not so eventful day, hour by hour. I made a dramatic cover drawing for it — perhaps inspired by all those dramatic people who some hundred years back decided to burn other men, women and children at the stake.
First half is in Danish, as the day was spent with my Danish-speaking friends. The second half is in English, as I returned home to my kiwi partner.
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