VISUAL Diary

An attempt to subvert social media and stay in touch with those around me. Remember when Instagram was for sharing photos?  

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Walking home from a party a few Friday’s back and this garden caught my eye.

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Walking home from a party a few Friday’s back and this garden caught my eye. Now, I walk this path often and the garden is a community art gallery, programmed by a local collective of sculpture artists and rotating through various shows throughout the year. That in itself makes me feel all warm inside, but the fact that the art makes me stop and document it more often than not is truly special. This is what the world needs: people contributing their art to a space that allows for everyone to enjoy it. This is what makes the world go round.

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Sculpture by Edda Karólína

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Sculpture by Edda Karólína

A friend of mine made this sculpture for a show and I missed it, so I asked her if I could take photographs of it because I loved it so much. We did some typical documentation of it and the. Left the space and found a spot that fit its vibe. The sculpture is by Edda Karólína who I have the pleasure of working with frequently. Her art is absolutely brilliant.

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New [old] Lens

Recently picked up a converter for my old Canon FD 50mm 1.4 SSC. So far, the most difficult thing about it getting back into MF mode in my head and also my need to get some contacts again as the glasses interfere too much with my focusing. But it is really fun to play with a lens that I once carried every day for 2 years.

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Winter Moon

Taken on 27.12.23 at 12:04, this photograph illustrates well how crazy the light is here in Iceland in December. The moon was neither rising nor setting, instead hovering on the horizon and you could track the movement of earth over time as the moon travelled parallel with the mountains in the distance and slowly growing in size as it approached the mountain closer to my position on the coast. Perspective changing all the while, a perfect allegory of life.

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