Detail from A Portal to the End of the World. Photographed by Anne Rombach of Sisters Lumiere.
A Portal to the End of the World is a three chapter project where I attempt to open a functional time traveling portal in the Akureyri Botanical Garden. During Chapter II: The Future, a new apocalyptic prophecy is uttered. We witness the seed of a new story that will soon be planted into the local folklore.
The prophecy translates into human language that which the soil already knows, and while this land-embedded knowledge is being spread by hidden speakers following the ways of oral tradition, we can see through a glass vessel how the soil builds its own communication networks, preparing to re-anchor itself to its original spot in the garden and spread news of its journey.
soil from Akureyri botanical garden, glass, laurus nobilis seed, screenprint, photographic print on vinyl, sound.
