Anna Margrét Sverrisdóttir Water Portfolio

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Water

By Anna Margrét Sverrisdóttir

A flow of thoughts written on the topic of water, describing why the topic fascinates me.

Written on the 16th of July 2015.

Water

Water is an evident force that always surrounds us, both for good and bad. Water is the substance that gives us life but also takes it away. All organisms depend on water for their survival but water can also end an organism’s life or destroy its habitat in heavy rain or a flood.

Water has always fascinated me, it is so evident in my environment, living on an island that is surrounded by water at all times, knowing there is no way off the island except with encountering the water or going by air. I can only imagine how it must have felt in the times of the Vikings, when people couldn’t travel unless it was summer and the weather had been mild.

Water though does not only have an impact on us humans or other organisms, water has shaped the landscape, from the beginning of time, throughout the time until the ice age and the melting of the ice created there up to the day today were the water is still forever changing, from the rising of the sea level till the droughts in the middle east.

Water is a force that shapes lives and land.

As the years have gone by, us, the human being, have figured out how to use water to our advantage, beginning with ancient Egyptians using the Nile for growing crops and now with our modern technology using water pressure to cut and shape metals.

Coming from the land of ice and fire. I have witnessed and learned to appreciate water, I have seen the eruptions of the Geysirs and the powerful waterfalls. I have bathed in the natural hot pools and I have drunken water straight from the clear mountain rivers.

Water fascinates me, how it shapes identities, its own and other. Shapes landscapes to its will but also allows for it to be used as a tool.

This is a photography project I did in the spring of 2014.

I went out on a frozen lake in Skorradalur, Iceland where I photographed details in the ice that caught my eye. This is my favorite photography project so far and is one of the sparks for my interest in detail and macro photography.

This is a pen sketch from the fall of 2014.

Drawn with drawing pencils in 40-60 min the 23.09.2015

I filmed the clips for this video over the summer 2015 and edited it as a part of my IB visual art course this fall.

I chose to film this as I am looking at how water has shaped its surroundings, the waterfalls slowly breaking the rocks they fall on, the sea eating up the beach and rocks its waves land on and the slow drops in a ice cave creating patterns in the ice beneath.

Here is a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-eqblYWLU