I have been working on the Project for the last 4 years. It is a continuum of my series Stemming (Mood) that I shoot in Iceland and Louisiana between 2009 and 2013. That project was a photographic dialog between two places that are dear to me. 4 years ago I moved from Downtown Los Angeles to the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and soon discovered that I could drive through the mountains into the Mojave desert in 40 minutes. Sometimes I say that I am a Photographer so I have an excuse to go on road trips. So I started taking trips deep into the Mojave desert with my trusty old Pentax and shooting a landscape that somewhat reminded me of the barren landscape of my native Iceland. After shooting for about 2 years I was at a standstill with the project and was seriously thinking about scrapping it.

In January 2016 I had to go back home to Iceland to set up my show Stemming at The Reykjavík Photography Museum. I had not been in Iceland during the winter for 15 Years so I was excited to be able to Photograph in the stark winter light. When I started printing my photographs from that winter trip I soon discovered a new dialog between the hot dessert Sands of California and the frozen tundra of Iceland. I started pairing my images from both places in similar ways I did in my previous project Stemming.
I am after all a person that is from both places and at the same time from neither place. I am born and raised in a cold place that has an abundance of water but I choose to live in a place that is Hot and water is scarce. My landscape work tends to be about man's constant obsession to control nature while he will never really have a chance of doing so. ( Might have something to do with the fact I had to flee my childhood home in the middle of the night do to a massive Volcanic eruption). Nature after all is the ultimate force