Actually I wanted to tell you my story about yesterdays little trip downtown. I love those adventures! Kinga called me (in fact she called Leif who woke me up) because she planned to go to Chinatown to experience Chinese New Year. As this was a spontaneous decision she had no idea when it actually started in China and when or where any festivities would be going on here. So we arrived at Chinatown at about noontime and there was: Nothing. Nobody. The streets were as dead as any other part of central Edmonton any other day.

So we walked back towards Canada place had a quick look into St. Barbara Russian Orthodox church with it’s colourful icons and arrived at Jasper Avenue. We were about to walk on to the LRT station when we suddenly spotted sculptures on the opposite side of the street, which we were sure hadn’t been there the day of our visit to Sacred Heart (of story which, it’s a disgrace, I still haven’t told you). So we crossed the street. And thus started what could have been a page long story about art, culture, religion.. I tried it yesterday and today but I failed miserably. It seems these days my mind and my muse are not very productive.

So I just leave it for now, wait whether I manage to make something out of it or not. But to leave you at least with a bit more than nothing I give you the pictures of the four statues: Do they look familiar or not? If the former, any idea why? By which country or culture was the artist inspired? Is there any logical connection between the different statues? Is it just variations of a theme or a whole story? Such were the questions we asked ourselves on the spot and if you want to you could now walk a bit in my shoes. Look and feel and think. And write. What do you see? Real knowledge or pure guesses it doesn't matter. Or if you're not sure but curious enough to use the art of googling - tell me how you suceeded..