Beginning to develop work on ice and skies - intending to relate those two phenomena through their structural aesthetics - I applied for an artist residency on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland. So, when I was advised that there was no guarantees to find those ‘ice scapes’ on the Avalon that I was looking for in the context of my project, I was a little disappointed – but it didn’t take long before I decided that I would want to come to Newfoundland anyway, convinced that I would be inspired by the landscape in more than one way.

When I arrived in Newfoundland for my residency, I was prepared to be unprepared, open to whatever the surroundings would offer me. - And on the second morning, when I opened the curtains I was rewarded: pack ice filling the cove up to the horizon, a very dense, quite homogenous plain, a real ice scape. Only a few days later, after this ice had vanished – partly melting, partly being blown out to the open sea again – a very different ice scenario happened to take place directly before my eyes: Big chunks of ice, growlers in the most amazing shapes floating in the bay, glowing in bright turquoise shades.

And a few weeks later I could witness yet another ice phenomenon, when icebergs came floating down the coast from Labrador, some of them getting caught in our cove.
- It was the first time in years that all this happened I was told by the locals and I could hardly believe how lucky I was...

‘Newfoundland rewards those who come with an open mind.’ This I have been told by a friend that I have newly found in Newfoundland.