Architect Remembers Massacre Victims With 'Wounded' Landscape

Creating A 'Memory Wound' To Recall Those Who Were Lost Hide caption

This illustration, provided by artist Jonas Dahlberg, shows his vision for a "memory wound" in Norway to memorialize the dozens of people who were killed by a right-wing extremist in 2011.

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This illustration shows how visitors will be able to look out from one side of the gap at a wall where names of the victims will be inscribed. The space between is meant to symbolize how those who were killed are gone and irreplaceable, but are not forgotten.

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Visitors to the memorial walk on a wooden pathway, through a tunnel and then emerge at the edge of the severed peninsula across from the island where the shooting occurred.

Jonas Dahlberg Studio, courtesy of KORO / Public Art Norway

An illustration of what the cut in the peninsula across from Utoya island will look like. The material that's removed will become part of a second memorial site in Oslo.

Jonas Dahlberg Studio /EPA/Landov

On a July day in 2011, the world first heard of a small island off Norway called 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 it, shooting at random.

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Architect Remembers Massacre Victims With 'Wounded' Landscape