Work made in 2000

Most of the work made this year was for a solo show back home in Iceland in September same year.

I began the year by finishing off couple of clay parts that had been made last year or the year before and needed some extra help to be finished.

For Dark Keel I took a forging class.

I liked forging so much that I am in the process of putting up a little setup in my own studio to manipulate metal this ancient way.

Dark Keel
(Hinn myrkvi kjölur)

Ceramic, clay cast glass and forged mild steel

19"x 23" x 7"

48 H x 58 L x 18 (cm)

Detail top view

Detail bottom

Seen from above to the side

Workphotos : 1, 2, 3 

 


 

 Three Cone Form

Clay cast glass and ceramic

11 1/2" W and L and 15 1/2" H when standing

Three Cone Form Bottom

Detail Three Cone Form Bottom

Detail Three Cone Form Top

Three Cone Form on its side Big

Three Cone Form on its side different view

See Three Cone Form at the IMF building in Washington DC

 

 

Flat Cone

1' h x 1' d x 14" w

clay cast glass, ceramic, beach found mild steel (fired with clay part) and a little piece of copper wire


Feelers

When I found out that I was going to move to a little town on the east coast I got a little worried that my "art life" might suffer a little so I went on the net and started to look for things that would tell me about my new area. As I was doing this I found that I started making new kind of artwork. I call them feelers for they in a way show how I was trying to feel my way through the web to my new home. To my biggest surprice I found there are lots of artists over there and a good connection between art, artists and the public.

 

 

I with Feelers I,II,III

Clay cast glass and ceramic

Feeler I 
(Svo skal vefa sem vefnum gegnir)

Clay cast glass and ceramic

12" H x 14" L x 7 1/4"

Feeler I from the side

Feeler I on the side

Feeler I cones to the side

 

 

Feelers II
(Margt er það sem í þokunni býr)

Clay cast glass and ceramic

11" H x 14" L x 11 1/2"

Feeler II Top view

Feeler II detail

 

Feelers III
(Hver vill sínum todda fram odda)

 11" H x 21 1/4" L x 9 1/2"

Clay cast glass, ceramic and copper

Feelers III in the lava

Feelers III also in lava

Feelers III bottom part

See influence 

 

Found Feelers I and II
(Öllum fylgir einhvers skuggi I,II)

10 1/2" x 10" x 11 1.4" each

Clay cast glass and ceramic

Found Feelers faceing each other

Found Feelers closer

Dark green Found Feeler I (back)

Detail Found Feeler I

Light blue Found Feeler II (back)

Feelers Found Big

FF in a show at Durham Arts Guild I, II, III


New Life
(Lík börn leika best)

Having babies has also been changeing the way my work looks like.

 

New Life I

Ceramic and clay cast glass

a litle bit more than a foot high when standing

New Life on it's side

14"l x 8" h x 8"w

Length 34 x 17 x 17(cm)

The orginal idea for this piece came from an old plastic float that I saw in a potters collection. The owner obviously likes them too for there was a whole wall display of them but then the rest of his house was covered with pottery.

New Life II (a)

(destroyed)

Ceramic and clay cast glass

Detail New Life II(a)

New Life II(a) from the side

New Life I and II(a)

New Life II(a) and II

 

 

 

New Life II (b)

Clay cast glass and ceramic

11 3/4 "W x 11" H x 8 3/4"

From the back

I had to remake New Life II for it didn't survive the planetrip to Iceland. It litterally exploded. I had not realizied that I had covered up the airhole into the sculpture so the pressure difference got the better of it.

New Life II (b) is the only piece in my solo show at Gallery Fold that year that was made in Iceland all the other work was made in my studio in the US.

 

 

Blue Life
(Lífs Ósk)

8 1/4" H x 8 3/4" W x 8 1/2"

Ceramic and clay cast glass

Base: clay cast mirror window glass

 

 

Orb Life
(Oft er opið augað blint)

clay cast glass and ceramic

Base: mild rusted steel and clay cast darkbrown window glass

Side view

Back view 

 

 

Feelers Contained
(Því er illa sóað sem of vel er geymt)

22"H x 27"L x 22"

Clay cast glass and ceramic

Workphoto 

 

Feelers on the Move
(Á faranda fæti)

5 1/2" H x 16 1/2" L x 5"

Clay cast glass and ceramic

Feelers on the Move in moss

Feelers on the Move in lava 

 

Feelers of Life
(Lífsins skugga skoppa)

9" H x 11 1/2" x 11 1/2"

Clay cast glass and ceramic

Back of Feelers of Life

Front of Feelers of Life

 

 

Life Spindle
(Lífsins skoppa)

10 3/4"L x 9 1/4" x 9 1/2" H with glass base

Clay cast glass and ceramic

 

 

Waiting
(Kongur vill sigla en byr hlýtur að ráða)

13"H x 21"L x 13"

Clay cast glass and ceramic

See detail of Waiting

Back of Waiting

 

 

Sailing
(Sá fær byr sem bíður)

13" H x 21 3/4" L x 12 1/2"

clay cast glass and ceramic

The back of Sailing

Workphoto

 

There is a little story behind "Waiting" and "Sailing". Every easter egg in Iceland is made out of a case of chocolate, filled with candy and then there is a little piece of paper in there that will have a saying on it. I used to keep mine and put them up on my bulletin board. One year I got "Kongur will sigla en byr hlytur ad rada" = the king wants to sail but the wind desides. At that time in my life I was in medical school and feeling miserable. I was realizing it was not for me to follow in my mothers footseps. The year after I got the saying "Sa faer byr sem bidur"= He who waits will catch the wind. That was so right. I had made up my mind and enrolled in artschool and life has been good to me ever since.


The Split 
(þegar ein báran rís, er önnur vís)

Ceramic and clay cast glass

9"W x 12" L x 8 1/4"H

Different view

From the back

In Gallery Fold

Work photo


 

Seed of Life I, II
( Frjókorn jarðar I,II)

7 1/4"L x 4 1/2" x 4 1/4"

9" L x 5" x 5"

Smoke fired ceramic and clay cast glass

Seed of life I

Seed of life II

 

Seed of Life III
(Erja má jörð er ávöxt skal bera)

30"L x 14" x 14"

smoke fired ceramic, clay cast glass and copper wire

Font view

 Closer

 Close up of end

 


Hiding Cone II
(Hver er sinnar gæfu smiður)

8 1/4" H x 11" x 10 1/4"

Clay cast glass, ceramic and copper wire

Seen from the back

 

 

 See my Solo Show at Gallery Fold in Iceland