" Ever since Ásgeirsson embarked upon his first journey, in his early twenties, his art has been characterized by a constant recycling of impressions which he registered in the diaries he kept while travelling in the Middle East, Mexico, Japan and China. However, his works rarely come into being during the journey itself; rather, the journey functions as an inexhaustible source of flashbacks to earlier times. " Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir art historian.