GLASSRAIN The installation was made in 1984, it consists of 500 pieces of glass, each one with razor sharp edges. The length of the individual pieces varies from 50 cm to 150 cm. Measurements of installation; 700 x 600 x 400 cm. A V-formed narrow pathway goes through the installation, approximately 70 cm wide, where no glasses are hanging, so that one can enter it.But when entering the spectator can not see whether he can continue and get out through the artwork, or will have to back out the same way he came, not until he is at the bend of the pathway. From an exhibition in the National Gallery of Iceland, 2001.
PARADISE?- When? Detail from an installation exhibited at Kjarvalsstadir -Reykjavík Art Museum 1998. The work evolves around the consequences of armed conflicts in the last decade of the twentieth century.The installation, covering 500 m˛, consists of a film area with video-films from Bosnia-Herzegovina shown paralel on three different walls, an index card system of persons missing through armed conflicts counting some 100.000 cards, a photographic area, a computer area, silk screens on steel, and more. For more information and images, see: Paradise? - When?
RAINBOW I like to think of the Rainbow as an unfinished construction, and imagine that maybe one day - after some one hundred or one thousand years or so - someone might decide to continue the work. The construction would reach higher and higher up into the sky, then decline again ... until at last it would become a complete rainbow. In Icelandic folklore the rainbow has a symbolic meaning in connection with good fortune or wishes. The story tells that if one can stand"under the rainbow" one may have a wish, and that wish will be fulfilled. A parallel and more widely known European version tells that if one can get to the rainbow one will find a fortune under its end. The fortune in the latter version is referred to as a cauldron full of gold, or wealth. In this case the folklore has lost its deeper meaning by ignoring the esoteric translation of fortune as destiny and luck, as in "good fortune". The sculpture is positioned in front of the International Air Terminal Building (Leif Eirikson Air Terminal) at Keflavík Airport. Installed; 1991. The height of the sculpture is 24 metres. Material: stainless steel and stained glass. Huge tiles of natural stone form a low platform around the base of the Rainbow.
WATERFALL Located in the Botanic Garden of Reykjavík, installed 1995. Height 660 cm (360 cm above ground level and 300 cm below ground level), length 2500 cm, width 800 cm. Technique; pigmented concrete, water, water pumps, computers, light. Two dark-blue columns protrude from a narrow and deep split in the ground that is filled with water. Water spurts between the two columns, and also flows over their tops. A computer controls the flow of water. It has been programmed so that the water flow is constantly changing, sometimes the water falls very quietly and sometimes it is like a powerful waterfall. Included in the program is a random factor thus increasing the changes in the pattern of the water flow.
