Dan Graham’s Untitled
May 12-13
Been driving the lower part of the archipelago … beautiful very narrow ! winding roads along ocean and mountains
Distant peaks resiting in white against watery horizon
Like clouds on Goddesses’ tabletop…
Found a completely remote cove down a dirt road. Azure waters, rocks to climb, white sand, mountains all around…found a purple star fish to throw back to sea…
There’s an incredible public art program here that marries the wilderness with international artists. Throughout Norway, the landscape is the gallery and it is a bit of a hike and hunt to find the works perched on mountainsides or resting in valleys over looking the sea. We’ve seen several pieces. My favorite is Dan Graham’s Untitled – a large curving wall reflecting the mountains. Spectacular! : check out more info about it here: Skulpturlandskap Nordland/Artscape Nordland
May 11
Lofoten Islands
Spectacular prop plane ride over the archipelago... Enormous snow covered mountains rising out of ocean...
Overnite in Svolvaer. Amazing restaurant Du Verden. Reindeer!
Drove from Svolvaer to Ramburg. Loftr Viking Museum was totally amazing...living history museum....handcrafts: weaving, woodworking, leather works...all recreated near the site of the largest Viking Age long house that's been discovered.
Staying at a beachside Rorbu. Little red cabin. Deelish dinner. Cod, scallops, white white... View over the ocean. Sun clouds on snow top mountain black rock plunging into the sea...
The sun never sets
It rests below the horizon well after 10pm...never dipping too far down, leaving lingering light all night and rising at 2am...
Spring winds twist and howl around our little cabin...
I accidentally used all the hot water showering. Oops...
Tap water is godlike. Glub. Glub. Glub...
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