Designs chosen for Norwegian massacre memorials

It's called "Memory Wound" - a sharp gash in the landscape to symbolize the scar left on Norway's soul by the slaughter wrought by a right-wing extremist.

A panel of experts announced Thursday that three designs by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg had been chosen as the official memorials to the victims.

The first, titled "Memory Wound," will be carved out of the peninsula of Sorbraten, which juts out into Tyrifjorden lake toward the island of Utoya.

Dahlberg plans call for cutting a 1,000-cubic-meter slice out of the land, leaving a permanent gash in the landscape, according to TheLocal.no, a website offering Norwegian news in English. The headland of the memorial will be engraved with names of the victims.

Dahlberg's designs were chosen from 300 proposals by artists from 46 countries. The panel said it was moved by Dahlberg's "radical and courageous" design.

"The jury perceives Dahl's proposal for Sorbraten as artistically very original and interesting," it said. "It is able to communicate and confront the trauma and loss that occurred after 22 July in a bold way."

In his proposal, Dahlberg said the Sorbraten installation was meant to be "a cut within nature reflecting the physical and emotional experience of abrupt and permanent loss."