Austmarka | 1-3 degrees | sunny
day three
21/11/2015 ~ rags24 ~ Edit
Austmarka | 1-3 degrees | sunny
looking at the maps
can’t tell which way round we are
the sun is shining brightly
through the birch trees
outside the kitchen window
keen to get out and about
wrap up warm
load up with camera
and bags for shopping
frost is still on the ground
the lake to the south
shimmers in the clear bright morning light
I love this kind of morning !
it’s cold – minus 8 in Oslo
I head toward the lake not sure which way to go
follow the path to the right
cat ice on the surface
and a loud but narrow waterfall
zigzaggs down the hill
through the dark woods
I take photos here and there
looking for patterns and rhythms
mixing film with video
don’t have a clear plan
just collecting data
fingers are frozen
the rest of me warm
gloves on and off
camera inside my coat
I come across abandoned buildings
take a few photos
hands are still frozen
can see an old white enamelled stove
but camera can’t read it
through the double glazed window
a wheelbarrow rests under a sloping bridge
leading to upper floor of a barn
dark rust red in colour
full of rubbish
on the way back
an upturned rowing boat
has been painted sky blue
fill up at the shop
keen for hot chocolate and bananas
in the studio
I make some plans-
no emails before 4
make a blog and write daily
take some photos
make some film
do some drawing
read stuff
making connections
in meandering fashion-
from Mary Wollstonecraft’s letters from Norway
observing landscape, philosophising on life
women, nature, society – and keeping it Norwegian to Hedda Gabler and the Dolls House
100 years later
women, intelligent and bored
in the way of many 19th century heroines
and back to Mary W and the Sublime and Beauty-
Norway in 18thC had a free press,
religious tolerance and a fair distribution of land
where all this leading
not sure I know….
