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The greenhouses in the Oslo university botanic garden are not large, no, quite small actually, and old. Two beautiful metal, wood and glass structures, one tropical with three separate wings, and the other a temperate palm house. When I first entered the wing with the water lily pond in the tropical green house, I could not take any photographs for at least 15 minutes. The humidity and heat made the lens get foggy, the difference from the outdoor freezing January afternoon and the artificial tropics inside being so extreme. It was a beautiful pool, though, so green, and the orchids in one of the other wings so weird, so inspiring. Breathing that air, carrying so many smells that I could basically taste it on my tongue. I miss the tropics. That heat and the humidity, it feels like it makes breathing so much easier.

Photo: The tropical greenhouse in Botanisk Hage, Oslo, January 2017. Posted on Instagram March 29, 2021.