Olafur Eliasson

We would look out the window into this very blue Icelandic light.

And so when we talk about nature, we often think about a mountain or river or something.

But in this case, the light that sort of fell into the room was this kind of incredibly blue Arctic summer, midnight sun.

It wasn't quite as north as midnight sun, but there was this kind of very strange light.

You know, that was the city of Hafnarfjordur, it's called, and it was looking north.

You are looking up to the very big glacier called Snæfellsnes, which is actually not very big anymore, but it was then.

And that meant we were waiting for the sun to set and be behind Snæfellsnes.

It had already gone down.

but it would still, from underneath the horizon, be able to illuminate the glacier.

And this means, when it was exactly behind it, seen from Hapnerfjorde, it started to glow in this kind of incredible red and yellow and sort of burning colors.

So if I have any really profound memories of Iceland, it was this kind of connection between a social getting together almost around a campfire, this candle there on the table, us running around, me and my cousins, waiting for the sun to be glowing up this glacier.

And I remember when I was in Denmark after the summer, I always thought of that.

kind of magic type of relationship with all these things that you somehow can see, but you can see if you make an effort.

Things that are invisible, but if you really look, you can see more than you think.

And that was somehow maybe the beginning of how I got more and more involved with nature, simply also because my family, or many families,

When you don't have money to travel abroad, which was expensive back then, you would go hiking and you would go camping, you have a tent, you go fishing, you do whatever the country allowed you to.

My favorite spot in Iceland was a place called Landmannalauga, which means the pools for the people from the nation or something.

And to get there, you could do a shortcut and go through Domadalur.

In that Domadalur,

I noticed as a child, somebody had taken a jeep and driven up the side of a mountain through the moss.