WILD PICNIX,,,

 

 

I have been looking for this pic nearly two years. I could not remember who had taken it, with which camera, digital or reflex and in the end it turned out that it had been a Nikon on black film and that the roll was in the bottom of a cardboard box in my place…

This is the most glorious and symbolic of all wild picnics so far. Held on the day of the inauguration of the Atomium after years of radical renovation, it shows the impressive grassy carpet leading up to the monument being occupied by one happy party drinking champagne and eating several homemade foods. There is something retro about the whole thing: we are the only one who thought about bringing food from home and enjoying it on the grass. The large crowd of visitors just bought hot dogs and beer from two trucks stationed on either side of the Atomium. Picnics have fallen out the Western idea of fun or social habits. Even the idea of having carefully cooked food you can transport goes beyond most people’s ability to project into the future. And yet we did it and it felt great!