The Edge of Heaven‘ series is a poetic view of the North, based on Icelandic landscapes, and inspired by poetry of Iceland.
I Am A Wisper In Water, 2014 Iceland
“…to find the place
where cosmic waves
crash ashore:
to cast anchor
off that empty coast,
that far frontier
and final reach
of created things:
the edge of heaven.”
“Iceland, fortunate isle! Our beautiful, bountiful mother! Where are your fortune and fame, freedom and virtue of old? All things on earth are transient: the days of your greatness and glory flicker like flames in the night, far in the depths of the past. Comely and fair was the country, crested with snow-covered glaciers, azure and empty the sky, ocean resplendently bright.”
“Ísland! farsældafrón og hagsælda hrímhvíta móðir!
Hvar er þín fornaldarfrægð, frelsið og manndáðin best?
Allt er í heiminum hverfult, og stund þíns fegursta frama
lýsir, sem leiftur um nótt, langt fram á horfinni öld.
Landið var fagurt og frítt, og fannhvítir jöklanna tindar,
himininn heiður og blár, hafið var skínandi bjart.”
(Jónas Hallgrímsson)
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