BARCELONA SHOWCASE - IMAGES

Longitude, Latitude and Iceland Series limited edition prints on hahnemuhle paper
 - Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain 2011

MORE TREMORS FROM KATLA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15995845

Emergency leaflets are available from most places in Southern Iceland and made interesting and slightly scary reading whilst staying in the town of Vik.  

SEISMIC AND MARS CANAL MONO PRINTS

mono printing - studio shot

mono printing seismic scan

mono prints with iPod drawing

With evidence this week that Iceland's most famous volcano Katla is experiencing frequent tremors, I thought it would be good time to post some of the mono printing I did last month based on seismic data.  Katla sits under the Mýrdalsjökull glacier and last erupted in 1918 and caused such a large volcanic ash cloud that crops failed and starvation occurred.  The eruption was recorded to have lasted a month and evidence suggests that it even caused gas poisoning in parts of the UK.


Preferring to work on a couple different series of work at a time, I also produced some mono prints relating to my Mars Canal ideas during the same studio visit.

mars canal mono prints

seismic and mars canal prints

THE VANISHING GLACIERS OF THE HIMALAYAS

The vanishing glaciers of the Himalayas were featured in an online article on the BBC website today. The "Rivers Of Ice"exhibition is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society in London until November 11th.

I have never been to the Himalayas but would very much like to visit.  Here is my own tribute to the diminishing glaciers of planet Earth.  This is a photograph I took of Svínafellsjökull in Iceland back in 2010. 

Svínafellsjökull - 2010  Pauline Woolley

Unfortunately you don't really get the sense of scale from the photo. These are large peaks with deep crevasses and when walking on the glacier you are quite high up.  To get onto the ice, I had to climb down a rope ladder from the rocks. Our guide told us that at the beginning of the summer, walkers were able to just step onto the glacier off the rocks.  This was a big indication of how much the ice had receded in only a few months.

SEISMIC SEA SCANS

Seismic Sea Scan 1,  photograph - 2011

Seismic Sea Scan 2,  photograph - 2011

Seismic Sea Scan 3,  photograph - 2011

These are some night time shots I took of the ocean in Santorini this year. They have a drawing quality to them, almost scan like and thought they seem to feed into my seismic subject.

SEISMIC iPOD DRAWINGS

A few weeks back I did a days mono printing in the studio based on the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption of 2010.  These new iPod drawings are taking from seismic reading of the tremors that took place.  I contacted the Icelandic Metrological Office and they kindly sent me some data readings.

Seismic 1 - iPod drawing 2011

Seismic 2 - iPod drawing 2011

Seismic 3 - iPod drawing 2011

Seismic 4 - iPod drawing 2011

Eyjafjallajökull - ash collecting and new ideas

On my second visit to Iceland in August 2010, I visited Seljavellir where I was able to take samples of the volcanic ash.  At Seljavellir there is an abandoned farm along with an abandoned public swimming bath.  The area was still thick with ash and diggers were present still trying to clear a lot of the area.  

Seljavellir after Eyjafjallajökull                Photo copyright of Pauline Woolley 2010

Back in February I contacted the Icelandic Meteorological Office asking for seismic graphs of the famous Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions of 2010.  At the same time I was looking at new work by Mark Francis.  I got this reply:

Hello Pauline - attached are two pdf files with waveforms of two earthquakes that occurred in Eyjafjallajökull volcano (records from the same station). During the two eruptions we recorded thousands of earthquakes so I just picked two of the bigger ones. One occurred during the flank eruption that began on 20 March (100406). The other occurred as the magma was breaking its way to the surface right before the second eruption in the summit of the volcano (100413).

Best regards,
Bergthóra S. Thorbjarnardóttir
Monitoring Department
Iceland Meteorological Office 

ICELAND - Grímsvötn eruption

These images were taken off the Icelandic Meteorological website. All copyright belongs to the photographers.

The link for the website is; http://en.vedur.is/