New Photography: Icelandic Adventures with Bob O'Connor

Filed Under: artist newsletter    On: May 31, 2011    posted by: Megan Solecki

O'Connor_Slide_800.jpg Breidalsvik, Iceland by Bob O'Connor

Welcome back after the long weekend, collectors! It's Sara, with a much-awaited second edition from Bob O'Connor. The sequel to the sold-out Laugarás, Iceland, Breiðdalsvík, Iceland is as stunning.

When Jen introduced Laugarás, she wrote: It's peaceful and epic at the same time. The color palette of the sky, the grass and the windblown horse are subtle and soft, and their beauty is enhanced by the richness of the muddy earth in the foreground... It's one of those pictures that makes me want to tell a million stories...

Breiðdalsvík, Iceland, too, inspires tales of adventure, of travels past and future. The promise of impossibly fresh air, infinite horizons, dewy, flower-flecked grass and endless expanses of green all spark wanderlust. Like the lone horse in Laugarás, Iceland, the slide in Breiðdalsvík inhabits a surreal landscape, made all the more unbelievable by the presence of the slide itself—seemingly randomly settled in the middle of nowhere, it invites anyone and everyone who happens upon this place to play. As we return to the day-to-day, Breiðdalsvík enables inescapable daydreaming—the surest sign of the unofficial start of summer.

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