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A Homeless Fox on a First-World Street
April Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Rust”
She belonged nowhere. I understood that.
I saw this sculpture on my first day in Stockholm. I was with a friend, we had just finished lunch after arriving that morning and decided to walk around to get a glimpse of this famous city.
The fox wasn’t big or shiny. It was rusty, small, and looked like it had been sitting there for a long time. And it was so insignificant on the sidewalk, not in a park or near a museum, just quietly tucked on the corner of Drottninggatan and Strömgatan in central Stockholm. These are busy shopping streets.
Apparently (after looking it up), this sculpture is called “Rag and Bone” by Laura Ford, a British artist. Its homeless appearance is meant to make people stop and think.
And I did stop.
That little bronze sculpture did make me stumble inside. I felt like that fox, kind of out of place, kind of invisible. Not because I didn’t have a home, but because everything around me felt so polished, while I felt ‘cold’, not so put-together.
We were in Sweden to learn about sustainability. In one of the sessions, when we asked how the Swedes made it work, someone said, “Maybe it’s because our country is not…
