Architect Remembers Massacre Victims With ‘Wounded’ Landscape

On a July day in 2011, the world first heard of canada goose factory sale a small island off Norway called Canada Goose Outlet Utoya under the most terrible circumstances. The island was a youth camp for Norway’s Labor Party. On that summer day, a heavily armed right wing extremist stepped onto Utoya and began to walk across canada goose outlet uk sale it, shooting at random.

Sixty cheap canada goose nine people died, over a hundred were wounded almost all young canada goose outlet online uk people.

This month, artist and architect Jonas Dahlberg was commissioned to create a canada goose outlet canada memorial, due to open next year on canada goose outlet reviews the anniversary of this tragedy. Most striking is the way Dahlberg envisions a channel cut clean through the end cheap canada goose uk of a peninsula, a concept he calls a “memory wound.” He described his vision to Morning Edition’s Renee Montagne.

Interview Highlights On the experience he envisions for visitors.

You start your walk through a forest uk canada goose outlet of evergreens, which is almost like Christmas trees, on a wooden pathway that are sort of circling canada goose uk outlet through the forest. canada goose outlet And you see https://www.mild-und-leise.de a little bit of the lake, but you’re pretty much enclosed on canada goose coats some sort of contemplative walk through this forest. After a while, this canada goose outlet store pathway starts to go down into the landscape.

Then, visitors go into a short tunnel and then emerge into canada goose outlet new york city daylight, where they stand at the edge of the severed peninsula. canada goose outlet parka Across a narrow channel of water, there is a wall of stone goose outlet canada engraved with the names of the dead.

It becomes almost like a gravestone, very polished stone. canada goose outlet jackets You cannot reach it. It’s close enough to be able to read, but it’s forever lost for your possibility to reach.

On what he means by “memory wound”

During my first site visit, the canadian goose jacket experience of seeing those gunshots. it was like being in an open wound, and it took me to a stage of deep sadness where it was hard to breathe. So I didn’t want to illustrate loss; I wanted to make actual loss. cheap canada goose It’s just a cut through the peninsula..

It’s still almost impossible canada goose factory outlet to understand [the shooting]. It’s also one of the reasons why it’s so important with memorials for these Canada Goose Parka kinds of things. It’s to maybe help a little bit to understand what was happening. So it’s not just about remembering, it’s also about trying to just understand or helping to understand.