This pencil drawing, illustrates Panamarenko's initial dream to set course for Spitsbergen with his submarine "Panama Spitsbergen Nova Zemblaya", a steel colossus of over three tons. Finally the sea voyage never took place, but the submarine has turned out to be one of the icons of panamarenko's work.
Panamarenko:
"I once made a model of a whale and I was allready thinking at the time: a whale is in fact a heavy, square trunk, in which you can easely stand up straight.That would be perfect for a mini-submarine, because I don't need a huge model, but still one in which you can stand up straight, because at sea, it can take forever if you have to sit down all the time..."
The full-scale sculpture of this submarine is now part of the Cartier Foundation collection in Paris.