September 26, 2016 Guðrún opened an exhibition in her atelier in the barn at Alviðra showing eight new paintings.
Me with my daugher and ancestors.
Me with my children and my ancestors with theirs.
Taking a close look at my relationships.
Kristín Halldórsdóttir 1754 -1820. One of my ancestors. Mother of twelve children.
The Clock of Centuries is a visual presentation of time and an attempt to demonstrate regeneration through direct female descent. The form is a clock; each circle is one century and the individuals of the female line placed in their birth years as far as records reach, or to the year 1685. The closest to us in time is my daughter, born in 1988, followed by myself in 1958 and my mother in 1938 and thus it proceeds further back. On average these equals three generations in a century.
The average number of years between generations, i.e. between mother and daughter, is 33.33 years. Looking into time, which is presented here as a spiral or interconnected circles where one circle takes over 100 years, three rays are formed where life ignites every 33.33 years.
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