Icelandic/Italian artist, Emilia Von Telese has been conducting a 'mini-residency' on Vigur Island
Making etchings in waste milk-cartons, using ink containing the soil of Vigur and sediment from Icelandic glaciers as well as artisan paper from Italy and techniques from the renaissance, she created a makeshift printing press from items found around the island.
The resulting prints are mesmerising and completely unique.
I was given the special honour of making marks on one of the etchings using sharp points of expedition tools. I have to admit to feeling completely out of my depth and just a bit intimidated - but the results were spectacular! I tried to make marks that represented something of travel, of making the path as you go and leaving behind the imprint of pole and ski or spike and edge - I was also thinking of the maps of old and the other ways of understanding landscape beyond simple ink and paper.
What I hadn’t been expecting was a print that - for me - recalls the universe and cosmic wayfinding of the future, finding our path through time as well as space…
Once we get the prints framed you'll be able to see these very special artworks on a visit to Vigur.
Thank you Emilia for such a unique and truly special experience x