2002. Commission – Vågsbygd secondary school, Kristiansand, Norway

Two identical, flat steel arches merge to become one spatial form. The vertical arch is in dialogue with distant surfaces: school, apartment blocks, shopping centre, trees and sky. The horizontal arch contacts passers-by: has human scale, tangible, seeks ground level.

The arches appear unstable however reciprocally support each other.
Although simple, the sculpture changes in character and expression as one walks around it.

Builders: Vest-Agder fylkeskommune.
Architect: Jan E. Løvdahl civil-architect MNAL
Art consultant: Solfrid O. Mortensen.
Tech.consultant: Civ.eng. Svein Søvik AS
Entrepreneur (steel-work): Sangvik Mek. Verksted, Nodeland.

20 mm. welded steel, sandblasted and spray-painted in 2 colour tones (yellow and yellow-orange).

Largest: h x w x d approx. 7.15 x 8 x 6.5 metres