Interactive video installation at Hallgrims Church in Reykjavik, 2021. 

Collaboration with Haraldur Karlsson, commisioned by The City of Reykjavik for Vetrarhátid / Winter Festival.

 

The work is based on the architecture of the church which is inspired by basalt columns, a natural geological phenomena. The installation and video projection is a play with the column structure by making this flexible, bendable and obscure its straight formations into abstract geometric and organic patterns with resemblance to Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle or dazzle painting, A camouflage method credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, consisting of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other. Dazzle works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate an objects range, speed and position.