Below are photographs I created in 2024 while at the NES artist residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. My goal for these images is to create an artist book.

Skagaströnd is a village of 450 people in the Northwestern Region of Iceland, just below the Arctic Circle. I was there in January, the darkest time of the year. I did not have a car, so all the photos you see were made on foot. The winter light here was fleeting, the wind was cold and swift, and people were scarce. These images reflect the quiet isolation and stark quality of life in this place during deep winter. Even when the sun came above the horizon, there was a blue quality to it, emphasizing how distant it felt between there and rest of the world. In her essay, “The Blue of Distance,” Rebecca Solnit writes, “The world is blue at its edges and in its depths… This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the color blue.” To be in Skagaströnd was like being lost in the bluest of blues.