Månen, dropen og diamanten

2024

Conglomerate and breccia

Commissioned by Statens Vegvesen for a new, public square in Førde, Norway.

The massive conglomerate and breccia boulders are split open to reveal the geological stories within these sedimentary rocks, found in Værlandet, an archipelago in the westernmost part of the region. The black, sharp-edged fragments in the greenstone breccia are remnants of volcanic ocean floor formed over 400 million years ago. This ancient crust was shattered in collisions between what are now western Norway and Greenland, then fused together by pale sand under immense pressure and over an unimaginably long span of time. The cross-section of the conglomerate rocks reveals deposits from the Caledonian mountain range, which collapsed under its own weight. These deposits were rounded by rivers and water before being encapsulated in sand and compressed into new mountains and islands now situated at the edge of the western coast of Vestland.

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