Nimis Nirvana
No public map will tell you about this place, but if you know where to start in the nature reserve Kullaberg, on the coast of the region Skåne, you just follow the yellow “N:s” or “Nimis” painted on tree-trunks. As you walk downwards and it gets steeper and steeper, you can hear the sound of the artist Lars Vilks hammering on his installation Nimis. Since 1981 he has been creating and re-creating his work build by pieces of tree-branches, planks, battens and things which has landed there after a journey on the sea.
No photo can make it justice. The work is about the whole site, the whole walk there, the sea and the horizon, the colours and the sounds which make a total impression. The feeling of the branches worn and touched by many people. The movements in passageways and into portals you don’t know where they lead. The insecurity if it is going to hold you. The massive time and engagement involved.
The flags on top of the towers flaps in the hard wind and the micro-nation Ladonia survives. An independent state with own currency, queen and ministers and national anthems. Latin is spoken and presidents chosen. You may join Ladonia for free, but should know Ladonia is at war with Sweden.
The book “Arx” close by is built by stones from the beach and concrete. It’s “pages” are written into the stones, as well as “theory” and “post-theory”- The silhouette of towers make the book look like a castle in the late afternoon sun.
Feels like the sea is about to swallow entire Nimis today. The power of the sea makes your body aware and alert. The waves are enormous.
The towers pile up in graphical forms towards the sky.
Nimis is monumental and frail at the same time.
Chaos and order.
Hommage to constant creation.
Fugit irreparable tempus.
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