From rq, who says: A piece of large format art I ran across on the way to visit a friend. The name (from the back of the piece) seems to be “Laika Come Home”, which is also the title of a Gorillaz remix album by Spacemonkeyz – artist unknown. At first I thought its gaze might be significant, but the Russian embassy is too far out the right of the frame, where I tried to capture that. So who knows, probably just a tribute to the album. :) Still, a surprise!
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Now that the statue exists, it’s clear that it had to be made.
It’s a very sad-looking face on the statue. Eldest says it’s a tribute to all the animals who have died during the development of the space program (they had an excursion and I guess that’s how the teacher explained it).
That’s what I was thinking also.
BTW, do you use the address of the Russian embassy as a metonym? Here, the embassy is in the street Tehtaankatu in Helsinki, which name is a widely used to when talking about the Soviet/Russian embassy.
No, because it’s on Antonijas iela, which is a famous street with lots of other significant buildings on it -- a large hotel, three other embassies (Finland and Ukraine are two of them!), and also the museum of medical history (which I haven’t visited but intend to). But it’s definitely the most walled-off building on that street.