fireworks at culture night

Luke Howard and Janos Bruneel - Open Road at Nordic House

it was so fantastic concert.
(my dear friend Elisabeth Carlsson organized this!)



(proper press photos are coming later)

culture evening… it gets dramatic (or rather crazy)

culture day in reykjavik (it was very nice weather :)

i was actually feeling like sleeping all day at home
because today is the day off after the adventure travel
and also before the another adventure travel
but reykjavik city was like that, so i failed to sleep all day...!

本当は、旅と旅の谷間のおやすみの日としてゆっくりお家で休みたかったのに
街がこんなことになってるもんだから・・・

my very precious pendant has gone. missing … i believe it means i've got a new something very special instead.

何かに気合いを入れて臨むとき絶対起こるジンクス・・・神隠しみたいな紛失物や、ありえないモノが壊れたり・・・これは重要な何かを与えられた代償の証拠で、こういうことが起きると「あぁそっか、今回も大きな出来事だったんだ」と認識する感じ。これ、たぶん本当。今回は・・・ものすごく大切に想い、毎日つけて、少なからず意味を持っていたペンダントが、いつのまにかなくなってた。気がついたときにはチェーンが切れてて、ヘッドはなくなってた。どこで落としたのかは分からない。けど・・・こんなにも大事な何かがなくなってしまったってことは、この２週間、ブランダ水力発電所とHveravellirで、とんでもなく自分が大きく変わったって証拠なの。これはきっと本当に本当。



i usually don't lose my belongings, ( i think it's because i usually care for them so preciously). But i have the only situations of my belongings were mystically missing or broken… it happened when i was onto something very special, when i was at the very big moments affecting me so much… i found that's my superstitious "lucky jinx".

this time, on the 2weeks travel in North, my pendant-head was lost in somewhere maybe in Blanda Valley. when i noticed, the chain was broken and the pendant-head was missing. it was my treasure more or less with a special meaning to me… but now it has gone…. i believe that means, along my superstition, i could get so very important something in there so that i had to lost very precious something instead…

in other words... the 2 weeks experiences in North made me a better person maybe. yes indeed i think i almost became a different person in those 2weeks. i step-upped to the next stage or something like that, so now i can say good-bye and thank you to my pendant supported me to come here…(oh... so cheap sounds! if i tried to explain it in language…)

the thing i lost was a pendant this time. so personal staff. but not always like that, maybe usually more functional staff. for ex. my 5 years old winter boots were broken last time in Myvatn, 4 years old suitcase was broken at my first exhibition in iceland, my tripod / mobile / digital camera / toy camera / were broken at my big shootings each time, or lends cap / 10 year old scarf / memorial bangle were missing etc etc… when they were broken / lost, i thought they let me remind, i was onto something special for me that time.

mmm… this idea is maybe coming from a japanese culture of amulets... which are not only for lucky charms but sometimes they protect us with their sacrifice… i'm not sure… and i don't know why i tried so hard to explain this… but i strongly believe it, or my spirit believes it, this a bit irrational but very mythical superstitious "lucky jinx" , i believe it very much somehow.

i was a bit strange visiter than other tourists… but i really enjoyed staying here Hveravellir. it was so special for me :D

i miss to leave here…

thanks a lot Gunnar for everything at the hut:)

bye!

→ nap on the shaking highland road. i was very tired...zzz...

pinholing pinholing…

in those 2 nights 3 days, from very early in the morning (like 4:30!) to the late evening, i spend huge energy to take pinhole photos for my new idea project. i was a bit busy to walk around and concentrate for my works, i forgot to take snap shots... but i think, i have done good works here in Hveravellir....!






この2泊3日のHveravellir再びの旅は、本当にがんばった・・・自分で自分をがんばった！なんて言っていいのか知らないけど、たぶん、これはがんばった！！ちょっと、本気の撮影に全精力を使ったため、スナップ写真ぜんぜんないけど・・・今朝は４時起きして写真撮りに行けたし、それなりにいろんな根性を発揮できた気がする。わざわざ戻った甲斐あって、4x5ピンホール写真いっぱい撮れた（と思う）この写真は自分も写るからいろいろ大変。ハッセルは４本しか撮れなかったけど、濃い４本だと思う。日常と勉強と旅と制作が、とても自然に折り重なってる。その全ての流れが充実した時を生み、何かのエネルギーになって、満ちていく。こうやってとても自然に、夢中にがんばれる時を過ごせること、本当に幸せに思います。

i'm just… very curious about sheep. sometimes they notice me and gazed at me. i wonder what they are thinking of me…?

(or maybe they don't think anything?)



ひつじって、ある意味とても神秘的なような・・・彼らときどき私と目が合ったりするんだけど、何考えてるのかな。（何も考えてないかな・・・）みんな、ファーマーの人とか、羊はおバカさんだって言うの。（けど、自分たちの命をつなぐ存在って意味で、とても尊敬の念を抱いているんだよ）

the first thing i did after arriving at the hut in Hveravellir again was… to put together a paper pinhole camera!

i bought this kit at the exhibition of MAN RAY in tokyo last year. finally the time has come to put it together!
i don't know how much i use it yet, but i'm at least very excited with this paper craft camera! yay! x





made it!!

put the film in!

took a first shot.



Hveravellirの小屋について、まず最初にしたことは、ピンホールカメラ工作！これ、去年のマンレイ展で買ったキットなんだけど、ようやく組み立てる時がきたー！そしてできたぞ。どのくらいどうやって使うかわかんないけど、とにかくこの紙工作のカメラを使う事にエキサイティングなわたしです。