Stacy Cantrell Art

Everyday here in Blönduós is always quite a surprise. When I think, hmmm, how am I going to top yesterdays adventures…it magically happens! Today, I got to meet two Icelandic artists. Finnbogi Petursson and Reynir Katrinarson. Finnbogi is a prominent artist here in Iceland. He is not fiber, but is influenced by connecting Art & Science, which is totally my thing! He had an exhibition here that was really unique called “Bay”. 

Bay lets you experience where the Blanda river meets the Hunafloinn. He took a raft with high-tech equipment that measured in real time the rise and fall of the waves in the estuary, then connected it directly inside the exhibit area to a green laser light. The exhibit was in a very old, dark middle floor of a barn. When you sit in this dark exhibit, you hear the sounds underneath the ocean and see the light going up and down like the the water. It gives you a sense of floating and imbalance. It felt like being underwater and part of the ocean. Very beautiful. 

https://www.baldbranding.com/projects/floi-bay

https://www.akleifum.is/project/finnbogi-2022

While at that exhibit, some locals were telling us about a fiber artist who lives in the old church just down the road and to go visit him. So we did! We literally just walked into his house/church and said hello. lol. His name is Reynir and he did all types of art. He learned to weave in 2016 here at the Icelandic textile center. A very interesting artist who uses anything and everything. A very ‘salt of the earth’ person. He was also a musician and played some of his music for us. It was wonderful! I highly recommend listening to it. He did an album in 2017 where each poem/song is about a different Norse god. 

https://www.instagram.com/seidlaeti/

https://www.facebook.com/reynir.katrinar

Today’s Music: Annie Lennox, and of course, Seidlaeti by Raynir