The battle for the wind - No.4 Umhverfing ( Around ) 2022
Art works in situ by 130 artists in Dalir, Vestfirðir and Strandir in the west part of Iceland during the summer 2022. The battle for the wind was the title of an outdoor installation in Ólafsdalur ,
Dalabyggð.
3
meters high steel bar,
steel bowls and a spearhead at the top turned around by the wind.
Visual
flags of birds from the surrounding. Bird
feathers put in the ground. Present and past merged in the battle for wind energy parks and the bloody memory from the Age of the Sturlungs, a period of violent internal strife in mid - 13th century Iceland. Birds are victims when they fly into the spade of wind power instrument. Inside the old schoolhouse in Ólafsdalur my brother Snorri, who is autistic, showed color pencil drawings on paper.
3/7/2022
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28/8/2022
Ólafsdalur, Dalabyggð, Iceland

















