Conceptual Artist, Yoko Ono, has planned an intriguing peace memorial for John Lennon that will be unveiled in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 9th, which would have been Lennon’s sixty-seventh birthday.
The tower sits on the coast of the Island of Videy.
Pictured above, the unique sculpture - The Imagine Peace Tower - will feature a giant beam of light, stories-tall, that will emanate from below, bearing the words "imagine peace" in 24 languages.
A handful of engineers from Iceland and Japan played with a schematic of Ms. Ono's visionary design to fabricate a 55-foot platform beneath a 6 1/2-foot-tall wishing well that houses nine spotlights.
"I was collecting the wishes for world peace, of course," she said.
Yoko recalled, "I, thought, 'I have to put them in a tower or something...a peace tower.'"
The wishes Ono has collected - about 495,000 so far - will be buried in "capsules" around the tower.
Wishes can be submitted by mail or through the "Imagine Peace" web site.
http://www.imaginepeace.com
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