# Isn't this just the most beautifully conceived Memorial? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 5, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969 "2014-03-05T22:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/1 "2014-03-05T22:44:49Z")
[http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/swedish\_artist\_jonas\_dahlberg\_to\_design\_july\_22\_memorial\_sites\_in\_norway/](http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/swedish_artist_jonas_dahlberg_to_design_july_22_memorial_sites_in_norway/) > [@](#): > > My concept for the Memorial Sørbråten proposes a wound or a cut within nature itself. It reproduces the physical experience of taking away, reflecting the abrupt and permanent loss of those who died. The cut will be a three-and-a-half-meters-wide excavation. It slices from the top of the headland at the Sørbråten site, to below the water line and extends to each side. This void in the landscape makes it impossible to reach the end of the headland. If you have to memorialise - and goodness does this event need a proper Memorial - this idea seems truly befitting and appropriate. What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/2 "2014-03-06T01:18:08Z")
It’s a beautifully meaningful concept . . . not merely symbolizing the lives lost, but the absence in the world due to their loss. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/3 "2014-03-06T01:24:24Z")
Wow. There are so many aspects to it - the sudden reminder, the “emptiness,” the way the names will always be just out of reach . . . It’s really beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/4 "2014-03-06T08:46:15Z")
That really is quite moving. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/5 "2014-03-06T12:03:36Z")
Yes. It seems to reflect the surreal sadness associated with that tragedy. I hope the Norwegian people feel that way and embrace it - similar to how the US embraced the Vietnam and 9/11 Memorials. These memorials seem to be ushering in a new way to look at these structures. No attempt at uplift or triumphalism somehow involved - more of a true sense of loss. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/6 "2014-03-06T13:49:28Z")
Truly lovely, in every aspect. Very well thought through and beautifully designed. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-this-just-the-most-beautifully-conceived-memorial/682969/7 "2014-03-06T13:56:21Z")
Wow - I just looked at this again today, and I missed the second memorial that this includes. Scroll down - they’ll be taking the material removed from the first memorial, and using it in Oslo for the second. What an amazingly complete concept.