In the Summer of 1972, whilst Mallander was based in Stockholm, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held there. The city was plastered with posters and notices, all carrying urgent messages formulated as slogans. Mallander experienced it as a veritable information war and decided to add a comment, or as he calls it, ‘a verbal turn’. He produced stickers in bright blue with the text ‘åh Gud’ (oh God) in an edition of 5,000 copies. Then he went about town and put these ‘blue sparks’ everywhere he could—on top of posters but also on the leaves of trees and window displays, as well as hidden in toilet rolls at the evening paper Aftonbladet’s editorial office. Mallander’s action of spreading the stickers was documented on 8mm film, filmed by Peter Widén, and 35mm slide film. The performance, titled Environmental Poem, was Mallander’s second artistic project in Sweden.