Looking back: The week before the exhibition

From October 15th to November 20th, I did an art show called HAUD, together with my friends and colleagues Magny Tjelta and Gunn Tjensvold. The gallery, Hå gamle prestegard (Hå old vicary) is an old culture-protection site located in the western coast of Norway. The landscape there is quite unique; it resembles the english coast, with flat, rocky, green landscapes and sandy soil, with rainy weather and lots of wind. Just outside of the gallery space you can see thousand-year old graves, stone heaps form the viking era. All around this there are several farms, with cows and potato/ carrot fields, and the traditional stone fences surronding them.

Small pump house at the beach

From the Lighthouse at Obrestad

Our view from the living room

We could see the gallery from home.

Hå gamle prestegard

The beach below the lighthouse

From the south: The café building

The Lighthouse, seen from our house.

Last ray of sun, before the rain.

When exhibiting at Hå, the artist get to live at the nearby Obrestad Lighthouse for the assembly week before the show opening. This week was a real treat, living in the old Lighthouse manager's house, some 100 metres from the cliffs by the Northern sea. The Obrestad Lighthouse has a functioning lighthouse tower, and four small living houses. One of them is a café in the summer and also a meeting locale, two of them are for renting, and the last one is being renovated.

Placed on the Lighthouse's property is also several meteorological measuring instuments, as this is the local weather station for the area. I used the data from this station to make my site specific artwork during this week.