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Three 6-8 metre high Moai statues made of gold metallic Alucobond facets on an aluminium skeleton were to be placed at the new highway off-ramp at Bommestad. Alucobond is a light, durable and easily processed aluminum/plastic sandwich-material. The facets would have glowed in the sun without blinding the drivers. We wanted the sculpture to be facetted to give a more modern look to the Moai, and to make it simple to manufacture the parts and to change panels.





The silver paper boat represented Thor Heyerdahls childhood in Larvik and the dramatic voyage with Tigris, a boat made of the same reed used to make papyrus. It were to be placed on a pedestal of black Larvikite (a local stone and the norwegian national stone) shaped like a compass needle. The silver paperboat would be a contrast to the neighboring, and visually noisy, container terminal.

On the black painted iron railing surrounding the sculpture, the last paragraph of his still relevant open letter to the United Nations were to be mounted: ”Our planet is bigger than the reed bundles that have carried us across the seas, and yet small enough to run the same risks unless those of us still alive open our eyes and minds to the desperate need of intelligent collaboration to save ourselves and our common civilization from what we are about to convert into a sinking ship.”

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