Arts Thread

In my artistic practice I work with photography as my medium. I am working on a project where I am researching the history of a distant relative. An Icelandic poet and dramatist named Haraldur Hamar (1892-1957). The title of the work is I Saw Three Suns in the Sky. My intension with it is to shed light on a man that is mostly lost to time and shrouded in mystery.  The work includes collected material from the family archive, texts, my own photographs and I build and create objects that are inspired from the reasearch. I am playing with facts and fiction, I re-shape information and make things up. It is a play with history where I deal with the ghostly remains of a life lived and a world that has long since passed.  I began this work while I was in the MFA program in Fine Arts in Photography at HDK-Valand and I exhibited a chapter from it in the form of an istallation as my exam work.