Images and words for this series were created during a self driven residency at
Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland, July 2021
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Immersed into the pure and corporeal landscape of organic
shapes and sweeping vistas, the meaning of place begins to change
Present time is suspended in the sacrosanct prose and poetry of an archaic Norse
Viking culture, as I am pulled into the glowing and luminous atmosphere of oblique light
Dalalaeda descends and recedes, thickly diffused, creeping, enveloping and disorienting
then quietly vanishing into the misty fells and bracken from whence it comes without notice
A lone whimbrel drums its dawn wings suggesting an almost imperceptible and unique discourse
A palette of vivid, multicolored hues beckons me - velvet jet black punctuated with caramelized ochre,
mercurachrome pinky orange and neon yellow, titanium white, smoky gun metal intermingled
among muted shades of milky slate blue, silver sage, aubergine, claret and emerald green
I am intensely aware of how deeply connected I am to a land that explodes without warning
as I witness the earth rhythmically breathing, bending air through tilted sky
My skin quivers, tingling as the earth trembles then shudders, very much alive,
speaking its own voice as the pungent yet fleeting aroma of freshly
simmering, scorched and bruised terrain floods my senses
I feel the unfolding of emotion in the vast ocean within me
A sensory cascade, fully amplified