I am gravely concerned about the future of our planet Earth. Will our children and grandchildren survive? What are we doing to our future generations? Listening to ignorant, self-serving, and greedy politicians that deny that global warming is reality makes me so hopeless. Everywhere in the world, we find evidence that global warming is happening right in front of our eyes. In my country of birth, Iceland, we are witnessing our glaciers melting away faster than one can imagine. Water levels are rising, the pH level of the ocean is changing, and we struggle with horrible wildfires that destroy vegetation and wildlife almost every day.

This series of work consists of Earth Healers, which are spiritual beings of a higher power that will heal the earth and turn around this horrible threat to our future.

Recent work where I am developing my themes and beliefs in the spiritual world.

Have you ever wondered how new souls are created. Here is my interpretation on how new souls are made. 

There is something wonderful when you meet your soulmate; it is when everything clicks and feels right. You feel like you have been together for many lifetimes, and you have deep mutual experiences and opportunities to help each other grow. Sometimes you don’t need words to communicate, you can just use your brain waves.

What happens to our soul when we die, who guides us into the soul world? Boats have been used as burial containers throughout the ages. Either a buried in the ground, set free on the ocean, sometimes even on fire or thrown down mountains. The boats serve as guides that bring the souls into the soul world towards a higher spiritual being.

The Journey is my exploration of the spiritual world; I am exploring my beliefs and researching the existence and evolution of spirits. Living in Iceland, I was exposed to age-long traditions of spiritualism and affirmation from spirits from a young age. I knew that “hidden beings” existed; they would lure humans into their hidden homes, but they would also protect us humans from misfortune. Life and personal experiences have opened my mind even further to explore the spiritual world. I have participated in psychic meetings, studied traditional readings, practiced yoga, and meditation.

The way we develop, in companionship with the same souls through many lives, will also be part of my research. Soulmates and soul groups are infinite beings of consciousness that help us grow and learn. It is my belief that the same souls have been with us through many lives and have spent time with us through our ethereal realms.

Iceland is surrounded by water; the Vikings used to send their dead ones out on a burning boat (vessel) into the ocean, if they were wealthy enough to sacrifice a ship. They were also known to bury their heroes in a ship in the ground. The boat served as a carriage that would bring the soul over to the spiritual world.

This body of work considers what happens to the soul after we die, transportation over to the spiritual world, and how we get there. My ancestors were all fishermen, and my Icelandic roots make me want to use the boat as a metaphor for this inevitable journey.

I am depicting spiritual beings that exist in the spiritual world and protect humans on Earth. They help the souls rest and recharge for their next lives, develop, and grow. The spiritual beings work on many levels and exhibit a range of colored light reflecting their level of maturity. They can be energy in the cosmic realm, light beings, and souls that have lived for many lifetimes.

The sculptures in the exhibition are grouped into three categories; the first category is a grouping of souls that hang on the wall with a long astral cord; the cord that connects your physical body to the astral plane; the link from the higher self or ‘atma’ to your physical body. The second category is soul carriers, boats, and figures that have a boat form transporting souls over to the spiritual world. The last category is spiritual beings in the soul world, making of new souls and soul mates.

The ceramic sculptures are all constructed using hand building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slabs, slip, and carving. The methods are part of a repetitive and somewhat meditative process. The surface is matte and soft, achieved by using slips, oxides, underglazes, glazes and platinum luster. My finishes are fired onto the piece for permanence, the longevity of my pieces is essential to me. Crocheted copper and silver wire and felted or knitted Icelandic wool are a decorative part of most of my work. The felting and knitting is part of my Icelandic heritage, methods that my ancient mothers would use to keep their family warm during the cold and dark winter months. Using these feminine techniques with a more masculine element such as metal has been a rewarding process.

In this series, I am working with the soul, the spiritual part of all beings. I regard the soul as immortal, and in each life, we live we get a new body to host our soul. I am also working with the astral cord or the silver cord (sutratma) the thread that passes from the soul to the physical body.

A spirit guide is a spirit that has the role of being a guide or protector to incarnated beings. They also guide you in the spiritual world, help you rest and recharge. Guide you during your work in the spiritual world.

This semester at FHSU we have been focusing on making a big head and a Little Body. 

The goddess of the night in Greek mythology was Nyx. She had twin sons named Hypnos and Thanatos. Hypnos became the god of sleep and Thanatos the god of peaceful death.

Making large scale ceramics, in this case, work consisting of five sections that together make the Boat. The Boat is a carrying vessel for the soul, helping to transport it back to the soul-world.

In this series, I am working with the bond between women, a bond that strong, wise, fun, forgiving and helping. To have soul sisters is precious and I am sure that my soul sisters are in my soul group and have been with me many times.

The Fishermen's wives is a works series inspired by my grandmothers, both of which had husbands that were fishermen in the Icelandic waters. They will all be faces of fishermen wives that calmly wait for their husband's return from the sea; this is the emotion I want to show. It was a hard life for many because the weather was often harsh, unforgiving and cold as ice. They could never know for sure if their loved ones would come home safe.

Big pots rock my world; I love them. Rough, earthy, fine and decorated with soft forms. Making a pot is meditating for me. I know my spirit goes into making a bowl and that I have done it again and again through different lives. That is why I choose to call them Spirit Bowls. Lately, I have been playing with adding the human form with my pots and they are embracing the bowl, keeping whats in it safe.

The pots are like sculptures that take on a role like holding a candle or embracing fruits and vegetable or holding a salad; even nurturing a living plant.

I love the fairytale; growing up my mom would read to me every night and fill my brain with these fantastic stories about elves, trolls, hidden people, princes, and princesses.  This series is inspired by the Icelandic artist Muggur and his beautiful story of Dimmalimm, about the girl that helped a cursed prince that had been spellbound as a swan.

In every religion, there are stories about strong, wonderful female characters. They often are a combination of a fighter, protector, and a nurturing motherly creature. Some of them connect with making the world; others are the earth that gives life to us. In Iceland, we have sagas about many goddesses, and they all have their elements. When you need assistance with love and fertility you call upon Freyja, and for healing, you would call upon Eir. For me a Goddess is is a creature from another world. You can call upon her for protection and guidance.

My native culture inspires this series, and each piece has a story to tell. Icelanders have a rich history of storytelling. Through centuries, people would travel between farms and villages, and get room and board in exchange for stories. Icelanders are proud of their old Sagas; books that we have treasured since the 11th century, and we are still able to read them.

The idea started when I saw a swallow nest in New Mexico. I fell in love with the texture and began to make several different nests with a different texture. The Nest series also serves as the mother figure. Protecting the eggs and the young ones until they are ready to fly out into the world. I used white earthenware, stains, glazes, underglazes, wool, fabric and high fires wire to create this series.

Obviously, the basic idea of making the fembots stated after watching the Mike Myers Austin Powers movies. I am very critical of the commercialization of the female body as a sex doll stereotype and what some are willing to sacrifice and transform the body for the longing for acceptance by modern society. I wanted to add a little humor to my criticism of today's stereotypes.

I love faces and wrinkles, these are my studies of different facial expressions. I look at them in a humorous way, and this is my little naughty, in your face gang.

This series is about the helpless love that a mother has for her son.  The Manbaby is a fully grown human that refuses to leave the nest but evades taking part in the household chores. He acts irresponsibly, does not follow rules and sucks energy and funds out of his parents.  How will society judge your way of coping with this challenge?

I took part in an installation exhibit at Art Center West. While I was working on this, I was thinking of the creators of everything. I made this guardian-like figures that are soulmates and stay connected with many strings. The net between them serves as a catcher for their creations that are in the form of flowers. I used multimedia including plastic, wool, hemp and wire.