Olafur Arnalds - soil scientist - www.moldin.net
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The poetic soils

In 2017 I was asked to make a contribution to a book that aimed to link arts and soils.  Together with a British visual artist Veronique Maria, I was given the task of addressing soil genesis.  Pretty exciting theme!  We worked together on a series of poems that are published in  “Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene” (A. Toland, JS Noller and G Wessolek eds).  CRC Press / Francis Taylor, New York.  This book has some very interesting entries, beautiful thick book of ideas and creative thinking.  By participating I was really stretching my comfort zone, but it was fun.  Sitting in my office chair with music on and writing poems, in English - it felt, well, quite good…...  You never know what tasks your handed going down that beaten trail of academy!   Here is one example of the outcome (send me e-mail oa@lbhi.is if you want the full pdf):

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