Duration: 13 mins. 44 secs.
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This video work was inspired by a song – ‘The Garden’ , written by the German postindustrial
and experimental noise band - Einsturzende Neubauten in 1989.

The retake recorded by the artist herself is a soulful, musically layered track that introduces the viewer to a female creature who symbolizes ‘Mother Nature’ and appears as three different characters of the layered narrative.

Almost all early cultures revered nature and fearfully regarded her revenge and destruction as an act of provocation, that resulted in 'Mother Nature" unleashing
her wrath.

The audio track and voice-over have been mixed by the artist. The video footage reveals layers
of the landscape of Iceland and emphasizes its myths, its smells and its sounds. The narrative is also a meditation on the psyche of things and the decline of the natural
environment around us. As a cultural construct, nature has always been regarded with a measure of ambivalence, although celebrated as a spiritual place, it has often simultaneously been feared as the abode of evil. In either case, nature as in life has been regarded as a sanctuary for outsiders of every kind at odds with their society.