Almost a week in to it!

September 6th 2022.

Brooke and self have two separate spaces to work and sleep with a shared kitchen. The residence has a print room, in process of being rebuilt after the original one that was destroyed in the landslide of 2020.

Earth moves in a big way. Five days of heavy rainfall dislodged the earth on the mountain sending tons of wet mud down into the town. Miraculously no one was killed but houses and businesses were wiped out. There’s a pile of debris left at the water’s edge as a memorial (It seems that way anyhow). The earth + mud forces bent steel I beams and twisted metal framed structures beyond their upstanding selves, laying them almost flat.

I placed a weatherproof (loads of duct tape) pinhole camera on a bent metal vessel to face the fjord hoping to catch the comings and goings of waterway traffic. The ferry from Denmark comes by weekly bringing buses and massive all-terrain vehicles to shuttle tourists to the glaciers; students of geography & geology to study at the research centre and containers with supplies for the town. There’s a young vibe in this town and a culture of creativity. Seydisfjodur has the reputation as the art capital of the east coast. Artist Dieter Roth had multiple workspaces in Iceland, one of them being Seydisfjordur. His influence is felt here still.

My work space and shared kitchen at the Skaftfell Art residency.