Two years after the massacre at Virginia Tech, another memorial is taking shape.

This one is 14 and a half feet tall, weighs 600 pounds and took nearly 200 hours to carve by hand from white oak.

The artwork, which will be installed in front of Cheatham Hall in Blacksburg, Virginia and unveiled sometime this summer, is a gift from West Virginia University visiting professor Levente Denes.

Denes, a Transylvania native, believed a Hungarian jousting pole called a kopjafa would be a suitable monument to the victims.

The posts were originally used instead of gravestones in cemeteries, but Denes says in the last few decades, they have been placed at battlefields and other venues.