The invitation to exhibit came at the perfect time. I was on my way to the studio, nearly at the point of packing up and taking a break from art, or at least changing my relationship to it. But then I got a phone call with the invitation from The Living Art Museum (Nýlistasafnið). I had a year and a half to prepare the exhibition. At the time I was quite busy taking care of my home and family, with three young children – two in school, waiting for a preschool place for the third – and teaching as well. The idea for the exhibition simmered for a long time, but there at the beginning I felt quite stuck, confined by work and home life, bombarded with stimuli. I used daydreams to get through that period. I daydream a lot and that state can take me to different places – it can be a landscape, a feeling, a texture, a color, or something mysterious and vague. I let my mind wander, go on a deep journey while I take care of housework and just daily life. But those daydreams back in 2022 became the trigger for the exhibition: I wanted to convey this state of being and to materialize daydreams.

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