Spills, drifts, landfalls, imperceivable immense shifts, weighted but only metaphysical. Lands are archaic; they exist as atemporal entities. These paintings are active mythologies of the land; they are a vision of land in sub-conscious. Imagine the bedlands: portals created by moments in the land that induce a heavy weighted feeling, a kind of metaphysical transformation. Puddles, ponds, glaciers, cairns, burrows. These are where Laxness’ characters succumb. There is a relationship between my writing and my paintings. One activates the other, but I’m not sure which. My texts are mythological landscapes in themselves. They perform a fictioning of the image. They use intertextual references as their own. These references become religious. They become interwoven in my own experience of land. To make a land, to arise a land. To arise a dimension out of the dimension to which paintings and bodies belong. This is not a non-site, this is mythologising that can only truly be participated in the imaginary.
April 2024