At settlement, Iceland was 55% Irish.
It shows.
Icelandic Emeralds
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Icelandic Knitting Pattern, Detail View
Fly fishers begin by observing insects along a stream. Their art follows.
Knitters are just as attentive to the natural world. Here, in a surf of lava cinders, new sweaters begin.
People follow the warmth of this care home.
Sulfur and Snow … and Mud!
It just gets better and better.
The Narrow Space Between Sea and Sky
That is the space for the eye.
.Swans in Lónsfjörður
Wild Iceland
Iceland is not wild. That’s the point. These reindeer in the East were introduced. In keeping with the gesture, they do prefer farmer’s fields over mountain heights.
I think that means that farms are wild in Iceland: not yet domesticated. Let it remain so.
Icelandic Runes
World
Heart
Dragon
Eye
Seal
Child
Mind
Egg
And World again.
What ends here begins.
What begins here does not end.
This is the language.
This is the shore.
This is the bound.
This is the bond.
This is Iceland.
In Iceland, Distance is Bright
Near Gulfoss
Darkness lies between you and the light in your eye. And half the world is the sky. Everything else follows.
House, Yard, Room
The sea is the room, the house is a stall, the yard is the house expressed in two dimensions and belongs to the mountain at our back. Welcome to Skagafjörður and the old language.
When Sun is a Verb
þingveillirvatn
The Dog of the Trolls in Skagafjördur
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
A Farm in Iceland 