" As a place of rapid geological changes caused by volcanic eruptions and moving glaciers, Iceland evokes a mixture of wonder and fear, a feeling of sublime. Even though Asgeirsson´s lava performances are influenced by Gaston Bachelard´s introvert theory of the phenomenology of the poetic imagination and his analysis of the imagination of matter and the shape of things, the way Asgeirsson stages his performances and attacks the matter, the lava itself with a burning flame, is more performative than philosophical. Conceptually dealing with creativity of alchemy, his actions are situated in the realm of the performance, with the artist in the role of the alchemist transforming the essence of things ". Æsa Sigurjonsdottir art historian.