The WPMP Peace Marker
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The Peace Marker The Peace Marker is the sculptural element of the installation work of art, the Worldwide Peace Marker Project (WPMP.) The Peace Marker, together as a pair with the WPMP Artist Ambassador, becomes the nucleolus or center of the national representation of each nation to the global work of art and, subsequently, to the model of world peace that the WPMP installation work of art creates as a result. The Peace Marker sculpture is provided at no cost to the WPMP Artist Ambassador by the project director, Tiité. The Peace Marker goes from the hands of the WPMP Artist Ambassador to the nation he or she represents as a gift to the nation and as a global component of world peace. |
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The Peace Marker is made from stainless steel and consists of four parts: • A solid base. • A hollow tubular mid-section or stem. • A hollow cap, engraved with the inscriptions. • A sterling silver Peace Coin embedded at the center of the cap. (See top view.) The welded assembly weighs approximately 14 lbs. The Peace Marker stands 12 inches tall and measures 5 ˝ inches in diameter at the base. |
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Peace Coin A peace coin is a work of art that is complementary to the Peace Marker. It was created to introduce the idea of world peace as having a physical and an ideological value. The Peace Coin that is embedded at the center of the cap section of the marker is a feature of every Peace Marker. Its presence is intended to signal the economic dynamics that may arise with the appearance of world peace as a cultural feature of human civilization. It is thought that a culture of peace will have a greater opportunity to flourish if its connection to the social, political, cultural and economic environment is based upon a formal relation where peace is more of a productive resource that just an idea or a state of mind.
Most historians surmise that the first coins appeared around 650 B.C. for commercial, religious or tyrannical purposes. Whatever their specific purposes may have been, their appearance coincided with a time of great fundamental change in the social, cultural and economic character of ancient civilization. Why shouldn't a currency of world peace make its appearance at this time of need for great fundamental changes? Human civilization is in a collision course with the effect and consequences of its creative development as a consumer society. As a dynamic influence in the affairs of civilization, peace may have a stabilizing effect that war could never offer. This is because the effect and consequence of peace is peace.
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