Iceland Travels & Techtonics

I was fortunate enough to recently visit Iceland – a dream come true for me with its 130 volcanoes!

Below I am sharing photos I took in Iceland along with Ted Kooser's poem entitled Tectonics – a friend passed this poem on to me after seeing my exhibition at Renaud Spirit Center and reading from my artist statement:
I am captivated by the idea that geological shifts and transformations seem to parallel both individuals and their relationships: continually changing, varying, shifting and developing, too. _

Valley between tectonic plates that grows 2 centimeters wider each year.

Tectonics
by Ted Kooser, current Poet Laureate of the US
from Delights and Shadows

In only a few months
there begin to be fissures
in what we remember,
and within a year or two,
the facts break apart
one from another
and slowly begin to shift
and turn, grinding,
pushing up over each other
until their shapes
have been changed
and the past has become
a new world.
And after many years,
even a love affair,
one lush green island
all to itself,
perfectly detailed
with even a candle
softly lighting a smile,
may slide under the waves
like Atlantis,
scarcely rippling the heart.

E-15 tongue/glacier.

Blesi (the blazer) is a hot spring pool at the Geysir Area in Iceland.

Volcanic basalt rock gives the sand its black color.

Geologic folds in Iceland.

Have a great beginning to your week!
Mary^