Tegnet / The Sign Compass Ring - Skive, Denmark
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N 56° 32.630 E 009° 01.960
32V E 502008 N 6266609
Tegnet er 1 af 11 kunstværker/kompasringe placeret i rundkørsler ved Skive. --- The Sign is 1 of 11 artworks / compass ring placed on roundabouts in Skive.
Waymark Code: WMHXCQ
Location: Denmark
Date Posted: 08/23/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member frivlas
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Tegnet er placeret i en kompasring af granit. Nord er angivet i sølv, mens de øvrige tre verdenshjørner er i relief.

Tegnet handler om, hvad det vil sige at være menneske. Tegnet er en opfordring til at tænke over det særlige i at være menneske. Som andre levende væsner – tænk på fuglene og køerne på en solskinsfyldt forårsdag – glæder vi os over en skyfri himmel. Men vi adskiller os på et særligt punkt: Vi er tilsyneladende de eneste væsener på Jorden, som gør tegn og symboler af Solen. Det deler vi til gengæld med alle andre mennesker på Jorden – lige fra vi har lært at tegne.

Tegnet er inspireret af bronzealderens soltegn, som kendes fra et stort antal helleristninger. Her er solen afbilledet som en cirkel med et kryds eller kors i midten. Derudover er Tegnet ide-mæssigt inspireret af alle de symboler, tegn og betydninger, mennesker gennem tiden har gjort sig af solen og af solens gud. Fra ægypternes Ra, sumernes Utu, bronzealderens helle-ristninger og grækernes Helios til Inkaernes Pacha Mama. For blot at nævne nogle få.

For Jacob Jensen Design hører der en ganske særlig historie til Tegnet. Den første dag Timothy Jacob Jensen begyndte i mesterlære hos sin far, Jacob Jensen, blev han sat til at tegne lodrette og vandrette streger på et stort papir. Igen og igen, indtil han havde forstået de to dimensioner, der også kan ses som livet og døden. På den anden dag, blev han sat til at tegne cirkler, både som øvelse og som billede på verden. I Tegnet har Timothy gjort den lodrette streg længere end den vandrette som symbol på, at livet er stærkere end døden.

The Sign has been placed in a granite compass ring. North has been indicated by silver while the other three corners of the world are in relief.

The Sign are about what it means to be a human being. The Sign encourages us to think about the special characteristics of being a human being. Like other living creatures - e.g. birds and cows on a sunny spring day - we rejoice at a clear blue sky, but we differ at one particular point: We are apparently the only beings on Earth who make signs and symbols of the sun. However, this characteristic is shared by all human beings on Earth, from the moment we learn to draw.

The Sign was inspired by the Sun Sign of the Bronze Age which is known from a large number of petroglyphs. Here the sun is depicted as a circle with an X or a cross in the middle. In terms of idea the Sign was inspired by all the symbols, signs, and meanings that man through the ages has ascribed to the sun and the sun god. From the Egyptians’ Ra, the Sumerians’ Utu, the petroglyphs of the Bronze Age, and the Greeks’ Helios to the Inkas’ Pacha Mama. To mention but a few.

To Jacob Jensen Design it is a very special story that is associated with the Sign. On the day when Timothy Jacob Jensen began his apprenticeship with his father, Jacob Jensen, he was asked to draw vertical and horizontal lines on a big piece of paper. Again and again, until he understood the two dimensions that can also be regarded as life and death. On the second day he was asked to draw circles, both as practice and as a picture of the world. In the Sign Timothy has made the vertical line longer than the horizontal one symbolising that life is stronger than death.


Source: Skives 11 Stjerner

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