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Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on January 26, 2009 at 4:45pm

My first trip to Iceland 1981:
I was invited by a friend Þor Elis Pálsson to do a performance at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik which landed me a job at the art school where I made new friends, friends I still have ... and now it gets complicated... when I was 5 or 6 I was given books with pictures of the second world war.. which hadn't been over that long... now in one of those books was a photograph taken on Reykjavik airfield of an Icelandic pony in front of a Lysander airplane in a brick-built semi-circle parking bay, there was snow on the ground and the blue mountains in the background.
Right. Now in the same year as my performance, winter '81. when I went back for the second time to teach... and I use the expression lightly as mostly we just made mayhem doing things like setting fire to glaciers, taking day trips through snow storms, freaking out at the aurora and testing the acoustics of lakes at night, I was invited to go flying in a Cessna, Þor and me rolled up at the airport and went to meet Arni at the plane, when we got there I immediately saw the Cessna was in the same parking bay as was in that old photograph, the semi-circle bay was the same, the mountains were the same only the airplane had changed and of course the horse had gone.
We had a great flight around the area and I realized that Iceland was part of my life. I go every year and continue to make mayhem although it's a bit more old man mayhem these days.

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on January 26, 2009 at 4:26pm

Hmmm. Talking Bird, I wouldn't want to go where that photograph was taken... far too crowded and those rocks may well have been made in Hollywood!

Comment by Talking Bird on January 26, 2009 at 12:43am

Comment by Judy Skolnick on January 26, 2009 at 12:20am

Striking photo, striking lights and darks and forms. No interruptions pure seemless space.

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on January 25, 2009 at 10:40pm

need i say more? I have been in love with Iceland and the Icelanders from the first moment I got there 28 years ago... could it be the dramatic treeless landscape or the courageous people, could it be the clean air or the midnight sun, could it be the hospitality and friendliness, the space... the invention of the artists, the lyricism of the language... I don't know but it rocks me to my romantic soul.

Comment by Judy Skolnick on January 25, 2009 at 8:24pm

Hi Rod, I have never been to Iceland, I have been to Alaska. I love auroras.

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on January 25, 2009 at 12:13pm

Nice sweaters!

Comment by TIZIANA BARACCHI on January 24, 2009 at 11:44pm

Yesterday I took a coffee with Bill WILSON.
Ciao Tiziana BARACCHI

Comment by Judy Skolnick on January 24, 2009 at 9:32pm

I started mail art in 1993 when a fellow artist from the District of Columbia Collage Society told me about it and gave me information on calls. I have never regretted doing this, I have had some wonderful collaborations and made some realfriendships with people who visited me. i never would have had these experiences if not for mail art. As an exhibiting fine artist it is a very demanding lonely field. I do not find the comraderie in the arts that I find in mail art. Hope you really like it and get going on it.

Comment by Mirta Toledo on January 24, 2009 at 9:07pm

I started Nov. 07, sending a work for a call from Greece (by Georgia Gregoriadou). My best friend was the one who insisted me in participating. I didnt realized what was it about (all the mail art thing...) I thought it was just an exhibit over seas...
The funny thing is that when I learn about Mail Art, I just love it, but my friend instead, didnt want to participate anymore... I only wish I did know before about Mail Art, because is inspirational!

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