"The Great Escape" Copenhagen

A mural

Cindy from Copenhagen

About me I moved to Copenhagen when I was nineteen, and except for a year in Sweden, I have lived here ever since. Now I am resident of Amager; a part of Copenhagen that is technically an island. Music on vinyl, going to concerts, large amounts of coffee, airports, books, autumn and exploring my city are some of my favourite things. I don’t like ants, bell pepper, p...
""The Great Escape" is a Copenhagen street art mural and one of my favorites. If you're in the neighborhood, drop by and see the girl before it floats..."

On the corner of Jagtvej and Odinsgade you'll find the pocket park Odins Lomme. There is nothing special about the park itself although it is designed and built with the best of intentions to produce something exciting. Flower beds and bushes are growing up out of cracks in the cement, intended to represent fractures from an earthquake, and a mural of an abandoned and ghostly container ship – that part is pretty cool – runs along the entire park and the associated playground.

But apart from the local beer drinkers, the park is mostly abandoned. Yet there is one thing that makes it worthy of a visit: a girl hovering high above the rooftops with a teddy bear in one hand and a bundle of balloons in the other. You will find her on the gable at the very back of the park. The painting is aptly titled 'The Great Escape', and there is something dreamy, but also a bit "noir"-like about the image.

It was created by Simon Hjermind Jensen and Anne Sofie Madsen, and it is one of my favourite murals in Copenhagen. If you're in the neighbourhood, drop by and see her before she floats away out into the world.

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About me I moved to Copenhagen when I was nineteen, and except for a year in Sweden, I have lived here ever since. Now I am resident of Amager; a part of Copenhagen that is technically an island. Music on vinyl, going to concerts, large amounts of coffee, airports, books, autumn and exploring my city are some of my favourite things. I don’t like ants, bell pepper, peas and tequila. Why Copenhagen? Copenhagen is old, dating back to the Middle Ages. And though it has unfortunately burned down a few times, leaving very little left from that perio...

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