The 18-foot sculpture was created by Lauren Voiers, a 19-year-old American artist, and fabricated by Lyle London and Shannon Owen at Art in Metal USA in Tempe, Arizona. Voiers was commissioned by the Global Peace Initiative to create the monument from her original painting,
Peace & Harmony, as part of the Global Peace Initiative to position sculptures of peace on each continent. The artwork was originally in a five-acre green space in
Chavasse Park, but is now in the public space alongside
ACC Liverpool, offering a geographical point where people can gather to remember John Lennon and contemplate his quest for world peace. The sculpture is hand-painted metal with a white glass feather placed at the top. Artist Voiers describes the essence of the monument as it relates to John Lennon, "His overall message is of people for people. When I was starting the monument I decided to incorporate music as the overall theme. There are a lot of healing powers to music, and Lennon captured that through his whole career and in dedicating himself to peace and bringing people together." and
Cynthia Lennon, 9 October 2010 The significance of the white feather is explained by Julian Lennon, "Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be OK – that we were all going to be OK – the message would come to me in the form of a white feather." Jerry Goldman, managing director of
The Beatles Story, Liverpool, comments: The monument is the second peace monument to be gifted by the Global Peace Initiative; the first being the peace monument for Asia which has a permanent home in Singapore. There are plans for a third monument to be gifted to the people of South America as part of a pledge by the Global Peace Initiative to reach out to all continents. At the unveiling ceremony at Chavasse Park in 2010,
Liverpool City Council leader
Joe Anderson said: At the same event, Julian Lennon told the crowd, which included European ambassadors,
Beatles former drummer
Pete Best and hundreds of Liverpudlians: Cynthia Lennon said: == Vigil ==