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The statues capture the joys of life (and, on a sunny day, so do the Norwegians
filling the park around you).
3. Fountain:
Continue through a rose garden to the earliest sculpture unit
in the park. Six giants hold a fountain, symbolically toiling with the bur-
den of life, as water—the source of life—cascades steadily around them.
Twenty tree-of-life groups surround the fountain. Four clumps of trees (on
each corner) show humanity's relationship to nature and the seasons of life:
childhood, young love, adulthood, and winter.
Take a quick swing through life, starting on the right with youth. In the
branches you'll see a swarm of children (Vigeland called them “geniuses”):
A boy sits in a tree, boys actively climb while most girls stand by quietly,
and a girl glides through the branches wide-eyed and ready for life...and love.
