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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 19942284" data-attributes="member: 158020">-The Sculpture Park of Veijo Rönkkönen- In the Finnish town of Parikalla, close to the Russian border, is a  remarkable sculpture park consisting of some five hundred concrete  figures that were all sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen, a humble  press worker and an artist with extraordinary dedication.   Veijo  Rönkkönen was only 16 years old when he started working on his park.  Veijo had recently got a job as a press worker in a paper mill in his  hometown Parikkala, a job he held for 41 years. With his first pay  check, he purchased ten apple tree seedlings and a bag of concrete to  create a garden around his family home. For the next fifty years, until  his death in 2010, he dedicated all his spare time and money planting  flowers and trees and creating hundreds of caricature-like sculptures,  mostly of full scale human figures. <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QYq63aAbO-0/Vv1LHNbdryI/AAAAAAABMpM/p0qpKb5flfo/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-76.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Rönkkönen  worked on various themes and some of his groups of sculptures include  dozens of individual works. A section featuring around 250 figures in  various yoga poses is particularly well known. Rönkkönen was a yoga  practitioner and his yoga statues are purportedly self-portraits of  himself. Rönkkönen is reported to have once said that the park was a  monument for the memory of his young body.   Over the years, the  sculpture park became a popular tourist attraction drawing thousands of  tourists from Finland as well as abroad. Rönkkönen charged no entrance  fee, but kept a guestbook for visitors to sign when they left the  garden. The artist himself remained recluse and avoided meeting  visitors. In 2007, three years before his death, when he was awarded the  Finlandia prize, his brother had to go and receive the prize for him at  the ceremony.   Rönkkönen also refused to lend his statues to  museums or expositions. When asked what would happen to the park after  he was gone, he said that he would bury it in sand and leave it like the  Chinese Terracotta Army. Rönkkönen didn’t believe anybody would be  interested in maintaining it. He was wrong. After Veijo Rönkkönen’s  death, the park was purchased by a Finnish businessman and art-lover,  who together with the Union for Rural Culture and Education developed  the park further. Today, the park is visited by as many as 30,000 people  every year. <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fKAmBpZYchY/Vv1LIrRPCXI/AAAAAAABMpQ/MIq_j88gNbA/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-65.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qLAB2Akd-ck/Vv1LJ-MKZ_I/AAAAAAABMpU/9DlXcddRZJE/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-85.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s_UcQdUiWPU/Vv1LLZRd1LI/AAAAAAABMpY/FJ5euppfZto/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-95.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fKIJCnpoB-k/Vv1LM23qTsI/AAAAAAABMpc/hTWMY8BW3hU/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-156.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-drx5u4dMwxA/Vv1LOpHlOgI/AAAAAAABMpg/IFlVWH5nmBM/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-22.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PkLF6HjW9MM/Vv1LQRmEaJI/AAAAAAABMpk/KxK3ifP_bns/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-32.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b_1_eGPXAxw/Vv1LRkU4NCI/AAAAAAABMpo/lo_WwzdkvnA/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-42.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GBuef3yawK0/Vv1LTENwEiI/AAAAAAABMps/TLeIGpyoSJU/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-52.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0WktpZuF3c0/Vv1LUgFHWYI/AAAAAAABMpw/7u2BnXHM6pA/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-102.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ABh679SkHb0/Vv1LV4-d6AI/AAAAAAABMp0/gYkXikEu4TY/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-136.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZC4KBn8sDl4/Vv1LY1hYtXI/AAAAAAABMp4/84-w5Pav3_o/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-112.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FFhA0Nw0tOA/Vv1Laof2swI/AAAAAAABMp8/HbH1MzkBeYY/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-122.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CGny4CVZ6y0/Vv1LcjpAXeI/AAAAAAABMqA/Da1Rv2LBTXM/veijo-rnkknen-sculpture-park-142.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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