Jessica Lindgren-Wu: Råda bot, alstra ro (To salve, to shield) (signed) Martin Hedén Steamgarden

Steamgarden

stacks of chairs and crooked pictures

Tominga O’Donnell • Editing and design: Linda Bournane Engelberth

Marie Sjøvold • Afterword: Birgitte Ellemann Höegh • Translation to English: Dan A

taking photographs is a very intimate act because I'm pretty shy

Jessica Lindgren-Wu: Råda bot, alstra ro (To salve, to shield) (signed) Martin Hedén SteamgardenI moved from London to Gotland, Sweden in 2019. My grandmother was 93 years old and she and I started going on regular car outings. She liked it best when I drove on old roads through the parishes. On a cold winters day, when we passed the cross erected in the forest grove on the road between Endre and Dalhem, my grandmother told me about the last execution that took place there in 1863. Many people had come to watch the spectacle. One of them was her