Look, the place is nature, right? And that’s a painting genre and its cultural extensions, so you need white, to balance things.
Fossvellir
White sheep to the left, white sheep to the right, and white hay up close. They all balance the white of the falls. It maintains visual interest and balance. What is a painting without that, eh!
When you live on the beach, well, that’s nice.
But if you have a church on the beach, you build a wall. That’s nice, too.
A bit dark, though. So it is. But not half so dark as the church!
Kind of a repetition of the motif of the cliff, really, but, heck, in this place, even the sea is a cliff wall.
Skriðnafell
The land has its way with us.
Welcome to Kjarvalshvammur, the Icelandic landscape painter Kjarval’s summer house in East Iceland.
As you can see, the house is the yard (you open the gate, which is the house, to enter it), and the house is a painting (literally) within it. Sounds about right to me!
2. Improved Old Style Hot Spring
3. New Style Hot Spring in the Neo-Viking Style
4. Fully Modern Hot Spring Tech
Laugar í Sælingsdal
Blue mud, for instance. Orange dirt. It’ll change you, if you let it.
Heverarönd
Do let it!
Craters have souls.
They watch us. We can walk into their watchfulness. We can live there.
And that’s the truth.
Skutustaðir
Poor things, looking longingly across the gap between worlds. So do humans view their births in the language of their bodies. For the elves, though, birth is not a moment, but a location, that recurs on and on and on.
So do humans focus the strength of their bodies and the world, and move together when they move back in. So is the mind born of the world.
It is what minds, and remembers, and stays.
Skriðuklaustur
A bit of grease, a harness, some WD40, and a few drops of oil and it will run again. Who needs a road network, eh.
Oh for someone to create some fencing material suitable for Iceland.
The Wire from Hell
Bessastaðaá
Oh, wait.
Vattárnes
Who needs a forest!
In Iceland, every stone is the whole island.
That’s the magic of living on a land that is a ship at sea.
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Klausturhamrar
A Farm in Iceland 