ABSTRACT

This chapter analyses a work of art integrated in architecture, but connected to scenery and urban landscape through its size and placement, as well as three site-integrated works of art located on the embankment of the Drammen River. The site-integrated artwork River Harp, a Song for Noekken is connected both to the river and the bridge. The artworks are inextricable parts of the environment, and nowadays it may be difficult to think of the Drammen River without at the same time having associations to the artworks and the Ypsilon bridge. The title of the work River Harp, a Song for Noekken gives associations to ancient folklore's view of nature's dangers and mysteriousness and the dangerous melancholia of nature through its homage to the water spirit. All of the Drammen riverside artworks can be experienced as overwhelming and at the same time fascinating.