Great cormorant with wings

Great cormorant with wings

Metal sculpture of a gret cormorant, with a less detailed wing. The bird is looking towards the sky and opens up its wings.

689

craftedobjects

2024

iain

Norwegian

Physical Object

437

Kongeskarven, storkarv med vinger, "turist skarv"

02/07/2025

cm x cm x cm

current,68.004948,13.207371;

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Metal (steel), natural stone

Cultural

metalwork

A metal cutter, coal forge, pliers, hand hammer, machine hammer, welding machine, brushes to polish the object

Sundveien 118, 8384 Sund, Flakstad Municipality, Lofoten Islands, Nordland County, Norway

The metal comes from a distributor in Harstad. Tor-Vegard collects the stoes himself from Finnmark.

Tor-Vegard forges the metall pieces in a coal forge. He and welds together the pieces, in our case the wings, and the body. The raw form of the bird figure was polished to get a smooth and shiny surface. and glued onto the choosen stone with epoxy glue.

The object has decorative and estetic functions.

The object was created for sale, in a daily operation of production.

The great corminrant, or as it is called, the "Kongeskarven", the king cormorant is Tor-Vegards signature product, that is sold in the workshop and from the webshop. Each piece is unique, the scale varies, but he always has to have a base stock.

The object is closely related to the local identity and Lofoten itself. The cormorant sculptures from Sund are emblematic souvenirs, that recall the Lofoten islands. Decades of work built the reputation of the Blacksmith in Sund, and many of the local families also prouldy display his works in their homes.

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