Powerful

[ashling]

Norway's Planned Memorial To Utoya Mass Shooting Is Powerful (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/05/norway-mass-shooting-memorial_n_4907109.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&just_reloaded=1

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My concept for the Memorial Sørbråten proposes a wound or a cut within nature itself. It reproduces the physical experience of taking away, reflecting the abrupt and permanent loss of those who died. The cut will be a three-and-a-half-meters-wide excavation. It slices from the top of the headland at the Sørbråten site, to below the water line and extends to each side. This void in the landscape makes it impossible to reach the end of the headland.

Across this channel, on the flat vertical stone surface of the other side, the names of those who died will be visibly inscribed in the stone. The names will be close enough to see and read clearly — yet ultimately out of reach. The cut is an acknowledgement of what is forever irreplaceable."

His plans were unanimously chosen by the art selection committee.

[Agschmid]

1. Cool memorial idea, very moving.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Very visceral.

Moving.