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Up the Mythos Stairs


From the museum’s assembly hall on the 4th floor there are still two flights of stairs up to the roof top café. Together with Stig Weye we climb upstairs keeping in view the land of songs and myths.


The pictures help us remembering our childhood songs about the carrier pigeon, Pierrot, and the little girl who is wearing a red dress because a postman is her friend. There are not that many songs about the telephone, but the children are singing, "Hello, hello, is anybody there?" as if it was a Medieval antiphony. Others are singing about waiting by the phone for "somebody who never calls".

Right before the café you come across primeval landscape with all known forms of communication. You can almost hear the many kinds of signals: Trumpets are gathering people, and walls are tumbling down, whilst a dove of peace is hovering above. Pegasus comes flying with inspiration for human beings and a message from the gods that everything is all right. We may safely continue to communicate and tell each other stories.

Stig Weye tells us that some of the paintings are coated with up to 45 layers of paint before reaching the right colour. The paintings on the last part of the stairs have been painted with pigments bought in the Far East. "Dragon blood" is what gives the picture its warm glow and red mother-of-pearl makes it bright and shiny. Before the many layers of colour were completely dry, Stig Weye dabbed the surface around the motif with a sponge to give it the right appearance.

Stig Weye, born in 1946, was granted the extensive decoration assignment at Post & Tele Museum because his pictures are cheerful and imaginative even though they cover great seriousness. They depict our myths in landscapes beyond time and place, but we still recognize the old stories told with immense subtlety in the beautiful paintings.


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