We spent two days mincing around Denmark: Helsingør, Louisiana, Klampenborg, Copehagen.
Here we are reflected in the gleaming metallic veneer of Elmgreen & Dragset's permanent public sculpture as he basked in the sun. Positioned on a small pier at Helsingør and titled 'HAN', he clearly rreferences Copenhagen's iconic Little Mermaid.
We went and checker HER out when in Copenhagen - it was a grey drizzling day, two busloads of tourists had just alighted, I helped a solo middle aged man get the requisite photo op of him and the 'maid.
She was surrounded by shallow dirty water, and mounds of stinky seaweed which buoyed up piles of waste - bottles, cans and plastic bags. Discarded most likely by the tourists or brought in by the tide.
It was a sorry spectacle.
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