Peace Monuments of War Material
Zweden
2018
The wave, the Flying Dutchman
There are many layers visible in this sculpture, literal but also figuratively.:
In literal sense there are 5 wings, of different times and of different countries. In a figurative sense this stand for, that there has been war at all times and in all places.
I cut out a wave of people, arms and hands, waving of joy, for freedom / peace. But you can see waving, in the meaning of crying for help.
All things has 2 sides, also war has. In this wave I see the 2 sides of war. The ugly side is that people are hurt, feel in danger and cry for help.
But the beautiful side is that war makes people connected.
The 5 wings of war stand together as a wall, but inside there is a gate, through which you can go.
Behind the wings, through the gate, through the cut open figures, you can see the nature behind it is still visible. There will be an opening, an escape through the violence.
By cutting the wave, you open the wing. It gives way the secret inside, you can see the material inside, the injuries, the structure, also the war secrets. But it may give also a deeper view inside war the deeper motives about war.
The motives behind war how beautiful such wing is made, how many hours spend people in making it, how technical effort people make to create such thing.
And this is of all ages war material is one of the most beautiful, exigent, imposing, creative artifact.
The same arms and hands that are waving together, or are crying for help has made these wings.This needs time to think.
If I had painted on the wing, I would have been covering the war being undercover If I had destroy the wing I would have been denying it. If I had changed the form of it, I would have disguised it, so you would no more recognize it as war And that is dangerous, because also than you can forget and deny its force.
But to cut it out, you make it useless for war and for me it is the only way I hope to see through the war, to discover the motives behind man, behind the cover, Behind the structure, behind the material, behind the beauty.
