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)
Three Cone Form
Clay cast glass and ceramic
11 1/2" W and L and 15 1/2" H when standing
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"
Feelers II
(Margt er það sem í þokunni
býr)
Clay cast glass and ceramic
11" H x 14" L x 11 1/2"
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
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
Dark green Found Feeler I (back)
Light blue Found Feeler II (back)
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
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
New Life II (b)
Clay cast glass and ceramic
11 3/4 "W x 11" H x 8 3/4"
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
Feelers Contained
(Því er illa sóað sem of vel er
geymt)
22"H x 27"L x 22"
Clay cast glass and ceramic
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
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
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 III
(Erja má jörð er ávöxt skal
bera)
30"L x 14" x 14"
smoke fired ceramic, clay cast glass and copper wire
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
