The gift of art, like that of silence, has the capacity to touch hidden yearnings for love and beauty and sadness and adventure, as well as the suppressed torments of anger and rage, bringing humanity in all its complexity to the surface.
Carved rock sculptures in Husafell by the artist Pàll Guömundsson were scattered in the mountainous paths around his studio. When the opportunity arose to go Iceland with my wife Lona and our older son and his family, I grabbed it. Iceland’s a country I’ve wanted to see for a long time, and [...]
