High up on Finnbodaberget, at the entrance to Stockholm, is the garden of one of HSB's senior homes.

Since a few weeks ago, seven new works of art adorn the park where the elderly meet and socialize.

But one of the works, Farkost Himmelsfärd, has stirred emotions.

Many in the senior housing think it looks like a coffin.

- How can you set up something like that, it's corona and people die like flies.

This is going to go away, says Christina Ösby, resident.

After SVT reported on the criticism last week, the tenant-owner association's board, in consultation with HSB, decided that the art should be removed and replaced by something else.

The work is now covered pending removal.

The artist: Is not a coffin

The creator of the works is Marja-Leena Sillanpää.

She won a sketch competition in 2017 and was thus commissioned to make art for Finnbodaberget.

- The first thing I experienced at the place was a divine feeling of heaven and sea.

It became the beginning of a story about moving mentally.

She says that the controversial Vehicle Ascension is not a coffin but a pedestal.

The idea is to be able to lie down on it and look up at the sky.

- The vessel is part of seven works placed as remnants from another time.

These are classic stone plinths and sculptures cast in bronze or iron.

It's more about the cosmic journey.

I did not want to determine the location.

It's traveling all the time.

"Understand those who have taken it badly"

Marja-Leena Sillanpää believes that the uproar surrounding the work is based on misunderstandings and poor communication.

- I understand those who have taken it badly.

The idea was that there would be information about the works of art in all the stairwells where you would get the whole story.

We would also have an inauguration with guided tours for the residents.

But it was difficult to get a date during the pandemic.

In addition, the design of the work is not complete, she says.

The idea was that the Ascension Vehicle would be obscured by a hedge that had not yet been put in place.

- It has become a completely different work.

This became a work that screams.

I work rather low-key.

Who do you think is responsible for this?

- It is a combination of many things.

But my purpose is not to single anyone out.

I just want to remind you that not everything is necessarily as it seems and that we humans have the opportunity to rethink.

What do you hope will happen now?

- It is too much to hope that the works would remain.

I hope they are placed elsewhere.