Morgan BellImagine Peace Tower: tribute to John Lennon
October 17th 2008 09:08
If you can imagine a world of peace
If you can imagine the possibility
then it can be true.
(John Lennon, 1980)
I believe that as soon as people want
peace in the world they can have it.
The only trouble is they are not aware
they can get it.
(John Lennon, 1969)
The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Viðey Island
The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon.
The artwork was dedicated on October 9th 2007, Lennon’s 67th birthday.
The Peace Tower symbolizes Lennon’s and Ono’s struggle for world peace which began in the sixties.
The words IMAGINE PEACE are inscribed on the Well in 24 different languages.
The Peace Tower is composed of a tall and strong tower of light that will appear every year and be visible from October 9th until December 8th, the day of Lennon’s death.
The Peace Tower artwork is closely connected to Ono’s interactive work of art, Wish Tree from 1981. The Wish Tree has been a part of many exhibitions by Yoko Ono around the world in museums and cultural centers where people have been invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a tree branch. These wishes are to be housed in time capsules surrounding the Imagine Peace Tower. Since 1981, Yoko has collected more than half a million PEACE WISHES from people worldwide as part of her interactive Wish Tree exhibits and via email and conventional mail.
The Peace Tower stands on a platform 17m in diameter. Around the cylindrical Wishing Well, which is the frame for the column of light, there is a platform faced with three types of native Icelandic stone – hyalite, dolerite and basalt- in a striped mosaic pattern. At the centre of the platform the light emerges from a cylindrical Wishing Well, 4m in diameter and 2m high.
The strength, intensity and brilliance of the light tower continually changes with the prevailing weather and atmospheric conditions unique to Iceland.
The electricity for the light comes entirely from the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant.
Access to Viðey is by ferry from Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavik.
Photos by TetsuRo Hamada
To see the Imagine Peace website go HERE
Limitless undying love that
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on
Across the Universe
(John Lennon, 1968)
Next time you meet a 'foreigner',
remember it's only like a window
with a different shape to it
and the person who's sitting inside
is you.
(Yoko Ono)
If you can imagine the possibility
then it can be true.
(John Lennon, 1980)
I believe that as soon as people want
peace in the world they can have it.
The only trouble is they are not aware
they can get it.
(John Lennon, 1969)
The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Viðey Island
The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon.
The artwork was dedicated on October 9th 2007, Lennon’s 67th birthday.
The Peace Tower symbolizes Lennon’s and Ono’s struggle for world peace which began in the sixties.
The words IMAGINE PEACE are inscribed on the Well in 24 different languages.
The Peace Tower is composed of a tall and strong tower of light that will appear every year and be visible from October 9th until December 8th, the day of Lennon’s death.
The Peace Tower artwork is closely connected to Ono’s interactive work of art, Wish Tree from 1981. The Wish Tree has been a part of many exhibitions by Yoko Ono around the world in museums and cultural centers where people have been invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a tree branch. These wishes are to be housed in time capsules surrounding the Imagine Peace Tower. Since 1981, Yoko has collected more than half a million PEACE WISHES from people worldwide as part of her interactive Wish Tree exhibits and via email and conventional mail.
The Peace Tower stands on a platform 17m in diameter. Around the cylindrical Wishing Well, which is the frame for the column of light, there is a platform faced with three types of native Icelandic stone – hyalite, dolerite and basalt- in a striped mosaic pattern. At the centre of the platform the light emerges from a cylindrical Wishing Well, 4m in diameter and 2m high.
The strength, intensity and brilliance of the light tower continually changes with the prevailing weather and atmospheric conditions unique to Iceland.
The electricity for the light comes entirely from the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant.
Access to Viðey is by ferry from Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavik.
Photos by TetsuRo Hamada
To see the Imagine Peace website go HERE
Limitless undying love that
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on
Across the Universe
(John Lennon, 1968)
Next time you meet a 'foreigner',
remember it's only like a window
with a different shape to it
and the person who's sitting inside
is you.
(Yoko Ono)
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