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06 Aug '05 - 701 W, 1 I - + 24 - 18 portret van Ijsland

Portrait of Iceland

I was riding this big jeep, full of GPS, GSM, ABS, dials, gadgets, gismo's and blinking lights, weighing more than 3000 kg and floating on massive balloon like tires with heavy threads. It would growl its way through the mud, snow and sludge. Occasionally sliding sideways, head first, into a sludge filled hole or crack through sheets of ice into a river crossing the eroded track. Using its 4WD and DIF LOCK it would howl and gnaw its way back onto the road or winch itself free using the other jeeps as anchor. The water which had seemed a gentle stream would bash against the floor of the car, become a roar, threaten to swallow the vehicle and carry it along the gorge towards the sea. To Scrape and grind the metal and plastic along the way against its icy sides. To reduce this wonder of technique to its barest parts and replant it into its bio-cycle.


Leaving the city behind, a sense of freedom floats around somewhere. There is a great sense of anticipation, I had seen it before. The tarmac ends, we hit the gravel and round a corner, there it is!
Endless kilometres of unbelievable mountains, grouching on all horizons in the wild broken clouds.
A giant orange sash in the gloom of the Northern skies over the icy desolation of the glacier.
A deep purple nimbus hovers over a dark palagonite ridge speckled with crimson patches.
Stratocumulus clouds streak feathers of icy crystals in the high blue sky.
I don't believe this !.
Against all meteorological odds some pink stratonimbus comes thundering across and through the steam emitted from a luminous yellow sulphurous precipitate where some mud bubbles happily.
This is a joke!
It is a complete orchestra!
Some Altostratus beams a friendly bright red smile at me.
This is Brahms meeting Cage with Wagner on drums.

I was asked to think about the position of Icelandic artists in an international context. About how a relatively small community of 250 000 can produce so many artist, many of which work abroad with great success.
I started some names dropping and note-taking on the Viking legacy and heritage system, where sons not inheriting land would go and seek their fortune in foreign lands, only to return laden with booty and success, and how this might reflect in the contemporary scolar, travelling abroad to return with valuable knowledge.
I looked out the window of my Reykjavic apartment, and there it was again; These crazy skies... clouds tripping insanely above the snow capped Esja ridge. This awesome brutal beauty looking over my shoulder.
The shadow of a cloud etched a face on the mountain slope, it grinned at me contemptuously. So I ripped up the notes.


Nature can mould people, the wind can chisel and hone them. The character of nature is reflected in its people.
From my window I see serenely wicked glaciers crouching over a brawling mass of mountains. Sweet fertile valleys spilling from a barren hinterland of lifeless rock.
Such a landscape breeds significance. Mountains give one a heightened sense of value. The wild and arrogant morning beauty induces a sense of quality.
Ones relative insignificance in the light of this natural grandeur must surely breed a fruitful base for art. One is left behind with the urgent need to survive ones death by leaving behind a reputation that will ensure immortality.
It makes you want to make the most beautiful thing ever, it makes you want to change your life.

But something went wrong somewhere.

A weekend night in downtown Reykjavic:
The pubs are filled to the brim at twelve, there are bands playing, the jolly spirit of slight abbreviation gives way to solid intoxication. Toward closing time there is a vibrant unease, last rounds are double ordered. Outside, sex-starved nymphets roam the streets in packs, whistling at men. While the men in drunken stupor stumble off erratically and fall over, erupting in sudden bursts of violence. At three O'clock all doors close and a stream of rawdy hot and steamy humans pours onto the main square.
There are thousands of bellowing people waiting desperately for something to happen.


 

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