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A Voyage to the Uttermost North

On April 15, 2012

“I have been to the Uttermost North, a place to which I have long been drawn. I swam in a lagoon the color of blue milk with drifting

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mists floating above its surface, felt my heart leap in joy at the sight of mighty breakers crashing on a remote black beach at the top of the world, trod upon an ancient glacier, traversed moonscapes of breathtaking beauty, walked up a small mountain, and visited an islet by boat for the lighting of a peace tower that hurled beams of blue light into the obsidian infinity

of the night sky. The place was Iceland, and it has left me with a ceaseless longing that only a return can quell.”

Our travel feature on Iceland, compellingly illustrated with the drop-dead

gorgeous photography of Iceland’s own Rebekka Gudleifsdottir, can be found at: https://artsforum.ca/travel

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