WHAT WILL YOU BE, WHEN I COME BACK?

This work is a reflection of her time here in Seyðisfjörður, learning to listen to nature,

to let go of what it takes away, and to sit with impermanence.

The patterns echo a landscape in constant motion: frosted windows during blizzards,

mountain ridges, branching rivers, melting ice. Nothing settling, nothing fixed,

everything in the middle of becoming something else. At the edges of the pattern,

light disperses into its colour spectrum, revealed only at the moment of transition,

what we often find ways to unsee.

Two of the circles are only activated by daylight, one around noon, one in the

afternoon. The third runs on a spotlight, a quiet reference to the first electric street

light in Iceland, introduced here in Seyðisfjörður. What you see depends on where you

stand, and on what the weather decides to reveal. The water evaporates slowly over

the days of the exhibition until only its trace remains. It questions what disappearance

could mean, and what we might rediscover in what we have learned to overlook.

Developed during a six-week artist residency at Skaftfell Art Center, March - April 2026.

Date  April 2026

Type of Artwork  Durational Light Installation

Materials  optical film, water, PET, daylight, spot light, metal wire

Size  3 pieces of 400 x 400 x 10 mm

Documentation  Nindya Nareswari