ETERNAL EMBRACE

Public sculpture by Trond Ansten & Misha Diaconu

This work has been created in a conversation between wood & metal, far out at sea, on the Fleinvær archipelago in Nordland. In a dialogue of spirit and matter, life and dreams, and with the people, the sea and the land of Fleinvær joining forces. There used to be thousands of wild ducks nesting on these small islands in a symbiotic relation, where people provided safe shelter and the ducks gave eggs and down. The sea used to be rich with fish, and the highway of life was the ocean. If a boat got lost at sea there would take another one to embrace it. At some point the ocean may embrace all, but new life will always occur.

Commissioned work for The Arctic Hideaway, Fleinvær, 2023

Our project was initiated by Lavinia Petrache & Håvard Lund through The Arctic Hideaway and is supported by Programul RO-Cultura & Kulturdirektoratet as part of artistic exchange programs between Norway and Romania.

Photo: Trond Ansten / Håvard Lund

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