Vibeke Mascini : the dent of Walter Umenhofer

"When a dead whale stranded on the shore of Florence, Oregon (USA) in 1970's, it was decided to scale-down the issue by using twenty boxes of dynamite to blow the whale up; by sending into flight an animal that we call the heaviest in the world. When Walter Umenhofer parked his Oldsmobile ninety-eight Regency at the boulevard that morning, he could not have imagined a chunk of whale would land on the roof by the afternoon.

The Dent of Walter Umenhofer is a study in word and image on the relativity of size, especially with regard to things that are so much bigger than we are. For how heavy is the animal that we know to be the heaviest on land, while it spends it lifetime weightless in the water?
I asked various people about the weight of the blue whale and used the reference points from their estimations as a framework for this publication. With each answer, the size of a whale seemed to change. "