I feel as if Iceland is not a part of the real world but more like a soap-bubble, shimmering and sparkling and closed to itself. Time passes and things happen like in a sweep or in a stream of consciousness and I feel as if I was standing beside myself watching all this what happens without being able to take it in. People meet each other, get friends, go away again; we see this beautiful countryside through the windows of our fast driving car, our brains flushed by this brainwashing music, the beauty of the lanscape and the speed of the movement. On one evening there are happening so many things that it feels as if it was the memory of many days when you think about it later. But at the same time, weeks and months pass by in this unbelieveble speed and one blink of your eyes is enough time to let 2 months go by. I feel like intoxicated or drunk, wehn this time-loops appear and you can’t realize what you do while you’re doing it but only after, in your memory. Time is a fast-forwarded tape. We are aware of everything what is on this tape but we can’t catch the present.
And the sky and the light! How can anyone think this is reality when it is shining in this unreal, silver light, a silhouette in front of an uncomparable beautifull sky! Perhaps this is the reason why we foreigners are apart from the Icelandic people. They take this beauty as a given thing, they took it in long time ago and they can’t understand why we are so stunned about it.



