Captain Jens Skovrider was ill with cancer when he and his wife Sigrid Skovrider asked us to create their grave site.

We both work individually but decided to honor their request and intertwine our artistic expressions into a shared narrative,
in collaboration with them.

Jens Skovrider sailed around the world as a captain for Mærsk. Sigrid accompanied him for several years but became a sailor's widow to stay home with their two sons, Niels and Ole.

At the end of his career, Jens also became the captain of the sailing sculptures Life-boats, where both he and Sigrid volunteered.

The symbols we used are therefore directly related to the sea. The waves break and create space for the figure, which embodies the Life-boats sculpture while also representing a bird and an angel.

The source of life and resurrection is the main theme.

Jens Skovrider's mother came from Trondheim, and the slate tiles are from a quarry in Dovrefjeld, which the whole family had a connection to.

We traveled to the quarry in the mountains and chose each stone individually for this composition.