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His first large sculpture was Jätten Vist (the Vist the Giant) completed in 1969 and standing over 11 metres (36 ft) high next to the European route E4, at Huskvarna.
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He is particularly known for his large wooden sculptures, but he also made paintings and metal sculptures. According to the legend, the giant was on the way home from a party in Västergötland. In the 1980s his very large outdoor wooden sculptures Bounty and Indiska reptricket (the Indian rope trick) at Riddersberg manor, south of Jönköping drew many visitors.
The mobile Bounty resembled a ship and the 103 meter high Indiska reptricket was the worlds highest sculpture.
Both were town down in 2007 after their condition had deteriorated. His later work includes a wooden balloon in Gränna, Sweden and Morgans skip in Gratangen, Norway, showing the wrecking of Henry Morgan"s ship Oxford in the Caribbean.
Örnemark lived and worked in Gränna, but also maintained a studio on Visingsö. Örnemark died on 4 August 2015 at the age of 81.
