Tjörnin (“The Pond”), a lake in central Reykjavík by the University of Iceland campus, Sept. 2018.
SEPTEMBER 8th 2018 — What do you do when life closes doors on you?
When it is no longer possible to express to someone what in your heart you wish to express? When you can no longer give what you would with your heart wish to give?
If you are creatively oriented, you may try to pour the feeling and warmth into your work. Beauty and love and sincere feeling are things this world can never have too much of.
Maybe someone who really needs it will find it and make it through another day or dark, dark night.
Art can be the greatest leap of faith of all, taken blind and deaf, with no reasonable hope of an echo back. A message in a bottle, hopefully carrying meaning or unexpected help.
I'm the author of the series of illustrated coffee table books suitable for all ages called YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE HAUNTED GARDEN.
I moved to Iceland in the summer of 2018 after a sojourn in Paris the winter before. I was born in Finland. I will soon retire this journal and move to writing on Medium. It featured explorations of various works of art & entertainment undertaken while here in Iceland.
Before embarking on my own solo projects, I wrote for games such as SERENA (downloaded on Steam more than 2 million times).
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