LAVA AND MOSS 2000

A PROJECTED VIDEO ENVIRONMENT BY STEINA

Einar Mar summoned my to his place named Light Cliff on a beautiful day last fall. The occasion was to offer me a show in his own gallery/workspace, set in a breathtakingly beautiful lava field in Hafnarfjordur. "The theme is lava", he told me. Can you fit your work into it? My love affair with lava comes from early childhood, when elves and trolls were still a part of reality. I remember if I stared long enough at a lava field, it started moving, even making sounds. Many years later I took some potent mescaline in Herdisarvik, and was able to revoke those childhood memories and the immense exuberance that goes with it. It is a great challenge to get landscape, frozen for centuries to move, yes dance. If god is everywhere, his presence certainly is most tangible in lava and moss.

— Steina, May 2000