KIRKJUFELL 64°56’30.1”N 23°18’24.8”W
ANNA-CLARA NEUNER
“Silence... I feel the energy from the ground through my thick boots and with every breath the feeling gets stronger”
she is around 4.54 billion years old , and she is going through her own evolution. She gives you shelter, rivers of freshwater, food and simply life. She is in you, she is in me. She is our mother nature, sometimes called Mother Earth. And she controls the elements and everything around you. The vast glaciers, massive craters, lava fields, endless plains, beautiful highlands, and the bubbling hot springs. The power of the elements – earth, fire, water, ice, and air can be felt everywhere here. The dry snow is crunching under my boots, every step requires strength in the cold and clear air. Everything I hear is my steps and the sounds of my heavy breathing, carried away by the wind. The path I am walking is slippery, a thin layer of ice is covering the earth and I move slowly forward and up the mountain. Looking away from my boots I see the end of my path, I feel my heart beating, the wide view over the magical mountain “Kirkjufell” is waiting for me. A mountain born out of fire, shaped by ice and time. They say this place belongs to the most vital energy fields in the world. Standing on its top, I am breathless, surrounded by nature grander than anything I have ever seen, my focus is shifting. I can feel my legs from the hike and the energy entering my body through my thick boots. The tingling starts in my feet and then travels up my body to the top of my head. This is the most sacred place I have ever visited, and it is not built by humans in the shape of churches or temples. Iceland woke me up... not loudly but quietly. It is not the first time I find myself watching mother nature in the land of ice and fire. I stood next to volcanos spitting out lava, feeling the heat on my face while taking pictures, I saw glaciers cracking and falling apart, and I chose this place for one of the most important days of my life, when I said “Yes, I do”. It is difficult, or even impossible, to catch the energy of this place in a photograph. It changed me... or awoke parts of me that were always there but overshadowed by the noise of everyday life. It is now an essential part of me. Out here, I feel connected and part of something bigger.
It is like being recharged. Can you feel it?
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MOTHER VOLUME ONE
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