Mary Buckland

Audio Log | Iceland

Recordings of daily life and landscape features during a prolonged stay in Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, from January to June 2020. (Ongoing)

1:00

Ghosts in the walls, run down from mountain peaks
1:00

High tide, calm water over rocks under frozen pier where a fisherman's boat has been pulled ashore in anticipation of a storm
1:00

Hraglandi on glass, not unlike hrísgrjón on cobblestone (is rain on a wedding day an omen of good or bad?)
1:00

Water running over ice, pooling, running away again, inviting the wayward foot to step, uncertain of depth
1:00

Tide coming in, a mad rush, deep and dark with the sun behind mountain peaks
1:00

Waves chasing hastily up a crevasse, pebbled floor rushes back, mist closing in, lighthouse flashes
1:00

River under snowpack, known only through an air hole, stood on a thin place (I've always been too curious for my own good)
0:30

Rip pulling rocks out to sea (applause)