Spatial Story
“We are many who talk about the sea, but few have the sea in their gaze.” This is a line in a song by the well-known Swedish singer-songwriter Lisa Ekdahl. If you love the sea, you will surely love the song.
For me, the sea is very special. It has been a part of my whole life, I’ve always lived close to it — as a boy in the town where I grew up, Jakobstad I Finland, later on in the city where I spent most of my life, Helsinki, and after that when my home was in Stockholm and Copenhagen, and now Malmö. The sea has always been around the corner. Like a good friend.
There’s something indescribably fascinating about the sea. The feeling when you are in a sailboat with just an endless horizon ahead of you. No destination, no stress, no artificial noise — just the pure enjoyable sound from the splashing of the water as the boat cuts through the waves.
Or the feeling when you have had days of strong winds and lashing rain and you finally wake up on a morning in the middle of the Bay of Biscay and you find that the wind has abdicated. The sea is mirror calm, the sun is shining. Dolphins swim a short distance away, and you dive in — knowing there are four kilometers of deep water beneath you. Scary in a way, yet endlessly fascinating.
Still, the thought has crossed my mind at times — wouldn’t it be nicer to live further inland? Less wind, less rain, less cold? Just a thought of course. By the sea is where I want to live. That´s home.
