Spor / Imprint 2023
Concrete and seaborne debris from Surtsey.
Public sculpture in correlation to Surtsey 60th eruption Anniversary.
Kambarnir, Hellisheiði. Part of Sequences XI.
In the summer of 2021, Þorgerður was a part of a research group who stayed for three days on Surtsey, furthering her ongoing project about the island. She was a part of a small group who discovered newly surfaced boot tracks in the hill slopes of Austurbunki. The footprints were part of a larger track that recently became apparent as the top layer of loose tephra had eroded away, revealing the obvious boot tracks embedded in the hillsides. The footprints are believed to be the youngest fossilised imprints by a human on Earth today, younger than the boot tracks on the Moon.
The location for the public artwork Imprint has been carefully chosen and can lead visitors in the direction of Surtsey island. On a clear day, Surtsey is likely to send you a greeting far to the south on the horizon.
Footprint made in collaboration with Birgir V. Óskarsson, geologist.
The Icelandic Institute of Natural History
Tracks, Site 1 - 3
Photographs from a research trip to Surtsey, summer 2021.
Photographs from a research trip to Surtsey, summer 2021.