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Only Glaciers Know

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Discussing the complicated interconnections between human beings and the landscape of Iceland, the piece is designed to be experienced while walking along the Iceland coastline. It is a sonic documentary and poetic fiction of the enchanting island.

It is,
a story about water,
and a love letter to Icelandic nature.

A local told me about the first glacier that died in Iceland, named ‘Ok,’ when I was in Husafell. It was declared dead in 2014 as it was no longer big enough to support itself and move. A funeral was held for it a year after.
He drove me up a mountain and pointed to the mountain top where OK was. What I saw was a grey mountain covered with scattered patches of white.

Somehow I thought of the dead whale lying on a shallow beach that I encountered in northern Iceland.
Its dark gray skin, exposed above the water, was worn, reminding me of volcanic rock.

It looked like a tiny island from afar.

Section 3 - Rain of the Past

Copyright: Yanran Bi

Section 4 - the Islanc

CC-BY-NC: Yanran Bi

Credits

Collaborated with the Iceland non profit Worldwide Friends:
Provide accommodation during my field research in Iceland, provide data of their beach cleaning which is included in the narrative of the sondwalk.

APA style reference

Bi, Y. (2023). Only Glaciers Know. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/only-glaciers-know/

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This word has been around since the mid-1800s. Here it is in an 1864 issue of the journal Notes & Queries: “I have been pedestrianating through a corner of Oxfordshire.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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