​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