my daughter came crying home from school
when she was about seven years old
saying yelling at me mama mama we have
to move I want to move the kids were
making fun of me for living in a garage
it was a little bit true because our
tour of the house has a subtle door but
technically it’s about shelter for me
this was a perfect place for living
because I needed a space where I could
live and work at the same time because I
needed to work on other people’s dreams
in the film business during day and on
my art at night time I had to look after
my daughter because I was a single
mother all right
I prefer to say an independent mom I
knew a little bit where she was coming
from because I knew one thing when I was
young I did not want to become an artist
that was the only thing I knew for sure
artists struggle there is no financial
security and that kind of weird people
in society and I knew this because my
parents are artists I had no idea what I
wanted to become I just knew that it was
not an artist so I escaped in high
school I went into math and science
thinking that this was the opposite of
art then I was thinking about what else
can I do
I thought about architecture I thought
about industrial design and everything
around it and I finally decided to go
for furniture designing which is
ironically next step to sculpture
without the clay which later in caught
my master degree in as a sculpture as
you know I’m an artist today
when I realized that I was escaping I
decided to surrender and stop I was
escaping my famous artists father my
small nation Ireland Iceland and met the
essence of who I was so I surrendered
and I’m gonna take you with me and share
you much value of surrender a great
friend of mine and salesperson Kunekune
a son who created clone motion and rope
yoga he opened up so beautiful me
beautifully for me to words let go and
Trust let go in Icelandic slappa sound
so descriptive slappa
like in Japanese Hana say these two
words are magical I promise you and if
you can adopt these two words you your
heart will open and you’re able to
surrender and then you can flow not go
with the flow go with your flow it’s not
the same thing giving up and
surrendering I have had to surrender
many times on the way I have found
myself in different impossible
situations to make the impossible happen
I’ve been around the world where I had
to make heart in impossible condition
once it was in Oshima island I was
invited to the art festival wash my land
2014 I was very happy to come back to
Japan
as an artist you get to choose your spot
I chose this beautiful old house it was
about 200 years old under the roof let’s
see the side was under the roof and I
thought what can I do here so this is
such a beautiful place and I decided to
make this meditation space what I didn’t
know when I chose this path
is that this house was built in a highly
respected Japanese way with no nails
what did that mean that meant that I
could not use any nails or any staples
or not even a needle nothing and my
meditation space was basically hanging
paper Scrolls from the ceiling three and
a half meters high Osaka not – it’s
impossible
I can never manage this I thought so I
meditated on it but I gave it didn’t
give up yet and I had a very good space
where I was working in the school nearby
on this paper Scrolls which are a
special technique which I have developed
it’s layers of paper of was he mostly
painted and then waxed so they get three
dimension and translucid so they had to
hang in space there was no no choice and
when I meditated on it thinking I should
just go go for another idea and the same
spot to something else
don’t be so stubborn but there wasn’t a
way out I had to do it so I had to find
a way how to hang it and I decided that
I could would find a solution and I
would find the nylon thread the fish
line around the beans to pull the paper
scrolls up and the thing was that
nothing was on level in this house with
the floor and my paper squirrel had to
be on level and straight and not only
that and circle as I said so it was
super complicated and it was so hot it
was over 40 degrees of course not
possible to open any window I must have
been 100 percent humidity there was I
was sweating from my palms literally I’m
not exaggerating
they were River down my arms dropping on
the floor
I was so sweating under the roof and the
strings they were just flying out of my
hands because I couldn’t feel them but I
finished this with my the help of my
daughter
Audra who was 19 by then and has learned
to appreciate
that I have been taking her out of
school regularly to residences across
the world Mexico was a challenge
last year I was invited to Mexico to
park it in Michoacan to participate in
the land art festival land art is when
you work in the nature with the nature
and you make an installation
installation outside it was rainy season
I knew that it was going to be rainy
season and I thought so what a little
bit more rain than usual is I can work
around that my message will come across
but this was really hard it was
literally raining from noon the next
morning which meant we had morning till
noon to work but not only that
everything would be swept away my idea
would be completely swept away because
yes okay long dart is supposed to be
family ephemeral and disappear but this
was a land art festival with an opening
and a celebration we wanted to show what
we had done at least for one day we
wanted it to be there so how I saw
actually my idea was not to use
something stainable like boot or stone
or something that the rain doesn’t
affect which of course is your way my
idea was to use the avocado dust so
sawdust because we were in the biggest
avocado airfield in the biggest one in
the world and this avvocato sawdust is
really beautiful in color it’s very
bright light color it’s not yellow is
like most trees err and in this area we
were in a place which was unbelievably
similar to Iceland I was so surprised
there was this big volcano and huge
crater this lava field and the blacks
and the black sand that I love from
Iceland and I was like wow this is what
I’m gonna use this is where I’m gonna
work so and I want to bring this the
test the avocado just saw
to the black sand and make my
installation with this contrast black
and white and dusty materials but this
was wouldn’t last for a minute no way so
I was like okay what am I gonna do now
and I didn’t come up with any idea and I
was very tired when I came to Mexico I
had been traveling for work I’ve been
working hard exhibiting in Japan in
France in Greece I was wasted when I
came to Mexico so when I realized that I
could not do what I wanted to do I got a
little bit frustrated and I was like oh
my god what am I gonna do now
then I was lying in bed and I was
listening to the rain and earlier I had
been thinking this is it just have to go
to the director and tell him nothing is
gonna happen you’re not gonna do it he
should send me back home
but I didn’t feel right do it
it was strange some peas there and maybe
it was a difficult step so I didn’t go
and talk to him yet and I was lying in
the bed and I was listening to this
heart train this unbelievable rain on
the Hat of my of my on the roof of my
hut it was like really it was like 12
men it’s one with one hammer in each
hand banging on the roof of my Hut I was
like this is unbelievable and I thought
okay this is this block this is this
famous block that artists talk about I
had never experienced this before not to
be able to come up with an idea what
what am I gonna do it not possible so
that’s me that’s my turn took up to be
there and I’m just gonna go to Milan
tell the director then I meditated a
little bit and then I said literally to
myself Maria don’t work against the
elements work with the elements and
amazingly
within 30 seconds I had this idea it was
there everything was there my concept
was there my element was there
everything was there I went out next day
found academic people found the pots
they were making bought about 300 pots
of course I couldn’t buy everything at
once because they didn’t have so many I
had to go too many people they were
flabbergasted like who’s this crazy lady
what is she doing I took them I broke
off the handles I broke off the ears I
painted them with silver next day after
later of course I had them driven down
for me delivered to the sand field which
I had prepared dug them into the earth
poured water into them and that was it
we had it when it was raining we had
reports when the Sun was shining which
was very strong such Sun when it was
running
we had the reflection of the water and
the silver everything was there circle
of life
infinity water and Miriah was really
happy but I had surrendered I really
surrendered I almost gave up
that’s it Ruth but I didn’t because I
didn’t go I didn’t dare to go to the
director and say I was done I’m from
Iceland like Iceland a lot of ice snow
and water which has influenced my art a
lot as you can see my art is all about
flow and circle of life and infinity I
use water literally and metaphorically I
constantly paint carving stones or weave
drops and ripples to talk about water
water is the most important element on
earth water is also the strongest
element on earth as we know from the
saying the drop holds stone not by force
but by continuously tripping there is no
life and there is no death without water
there is no beginning and there is no
end without water water is everything
there is nothing without water at young
age I already realized how precious
water was that water is kind of the new
oil the United Nations may have
estimated that in 2050 over 2 billion
people will be with out access to clean
water in 48 countries companies monetize
water it is a human human rights of
everyone to have access to water
there is nothing without water water has
no boundaries
water is circles in the universe water
is the beginning and the end of
everything
water is everything talking about
precious things my precious daughter
Astra came running home from school
again yelling again mama mama mama the
kids is good let’s say we have the
coolest house can we make a party here
things change
I guess maybe our children they don’t
get satisfaction from the same from the
parent satisfaction they can be proud of
us they can be happy with us but they
don’t get the same satisfaction until
the feeling ripples down to them you see
Astra now I was at a student
a great poet dreaming of becoming a
novelist see might struggle between
taking the big step of becoming an
artist as a real writer or going for a
secure stop job C will have to surrender
my only dream for her is that she stays
my best friend forever I will have to
surrender trust and let go knowing that
she will find her right flow her own
flow
when she was about seven years old
saying yelling at me mama mama we have
to move I want to move the kids were
making fun of me for living in a garage
it was a little bit true because our
tour of the house has a subtle door but
technically it’s about shelter for me
this was a perfect place for living
because I needed a space where I could
live and work at the same time because I
needed to work on other people’s dreams
in the film business during day and on
my art at night time I had to look after
my daughter because I was a single
mother all right
I prefer to say an independent mom I
knew a little bit where she was coming
from because I knew one thing when I was
young I did not want to become an artist
that was the only thing I knew for sure
artists struggle there is no financial
security and that kind of weird people
in society and I knew this because my
parents are artists I had no idea what I
wanted to become I just knew that it was
not an artist so I escaped in high
school I went into math and science
thinking that this was the opposite of
art then I was thinking about what else
can I do
I thought about architecture I thought
about industrial design and everything
around it and I finally decided to go
for furniture designing which is
ironically next step to sculpture
without the clay which later in caught
my master degree in as a sculpture as
you know I’m an artist today
when I realized that I was escaping I
decided to surrender and stop I was
escaping my famous artists father my
small nation Ireland Iceland and met the
essence of who I was so I surrendered
and I’m gonna take you with me and share
you much value of surrender a great
friend of mine and salesperson Kunekune
a son who created clone motion and rope
yoga he opened up so beautiful me
beautifully for me to words let go and
Trust let go in Icelandic slappa sound
so descriptive slappa
like in Japanese Hana say these two
words are magical I promise you and if
you can adopt these two words you your
heart will open and you’re able to
surrender and then you can flow not go
with the flow go with your flow it’s not
the same thing giving up and
surrendering I have had to surrender
many times on the way I have found
myself in different impossible
situations to make the impossible happen
I’ve been around the world where I had
to make heart in impossible condition
once it was in Oshima island I was
invited to the art festival wash my land
2014 I was very happy to come back to
Japan
as an artist you get to choose your spot
I chose this beautiful old house it was
about 200 years old under the roof let’s
see the side was under the roof and I
thought what can I do here so this is
such a beautiful place and I decided to
make this meditation space what I didn’t
know when I chose this path
is that this house was built in a highly
respected Japanese way with no nails
what did that mean that meant that I
could not use any nails or any staples
or not even a needle nothing and my
meditation space was basically hanging
paper Scrolls from the ceiling three and
a half meters high Osaka not – it’s
impossible
I can never manage this I thought so I
meditated on it but I gave it didn’t
give up yet and I had a very good space
where I was working in the school nearby
on this paper Scrolls which are a
special technique which I have developed
it’s layers of paper of was he mostly
painted and then waxed so they get three
dimension and translucid so they had to
hang in space there was no no choice and
when I meditated on it thinking I should
just go go for another idea and the same
spot to something else
don’t be so stubborn but there wasn’t a
way out I had to do it so I had to find
a way how to hang it and I decided that
I could would find a solution and I
would find the nylon thread the fish
line around the beans to pull the paper
scrolls up and the thing was that
nothing was on level in this house with
the floor and my paper squirrel had to
be on level and straight and not only
that and circle as I said so it was
super complicated and it was so hot it
was over 40 degrees of course not
possible to open any window I must have
been 100 percent humidity there was I
was sweating from my palms literally I’m
not exaggerating
they were River down my arms dropping on
the floor
I was so sweating under the roof and the
strings they were just flying out of my
hands because I couldn’t feel them but I
finished this with my the help of my
daughter
Audra who was 19 by then and has learned
to appreciate
that I have been taking her out of
school regularly to residences across
the world Mexico was a challenge
last year I was invited to Mexico to
park it in Michoacan to participate in
the land art festival land art is when
you work in the nature with the nature
and you make an installation
installation outside it was rainy season
I knew that it was going to be rainy
season and I thought so what a little
bit more rain than usual is I can work
around that my message will come across
but this was really hard it was
literally raining from noon the next
morning which meant we had morning till
noon to work but not only that
everything would be swept away my idea
would be completely swept away because
yes okay long dart is supposed to be
family ephemeral and disappear but this
was a land art festival with an opening
and a celebration we wanted to show what
we had done at least for one day we
wanted it to be there so how I saw
actually my idea was not to use
something stainable like boot or stone
or something that the rain doesn’t
affect which of course is your way my
idea was to use the avocado dust so
sawdust because we were in the biggest
avocado airfield in the biggest one in
the world and this avvocato sawdust is
really beautiful in color it’s very
bright light color it’s not yellow is
like most trees err and in this area we
were in a place which was unbelievably
similar to Iceland I was so surprised
there was this big volcano and huge
crater this lava field and the blacks
and the black sand that I love from
Iceland and I was like wow this is what
I’m gonna use this is where I’m gonna
work so and I want to bring this the
test the avocado just saw
to the black sand and make my
installation with this contrast black
and white and dusty materials but this
was wouldn’t last for a minute no way so
I was like okay what am I gonna do now
and I didn’t come up with any idea and I
was very tired when I came to Mexico I
had been traveling for work I’ve been
working hard exhibiting in Japan in
France in Greece I was wasted when I
came to Mexico so when I realized that I
could not do what I wanted to do I got a
little bit frustrated and I was like oh
my god what am I gonna do now
then I was lying in bed and I was
listening to the rain and earlier I had
been thinking this is it just have to go
to the director and tell him nothing is
gonna happen you’re not gonna do it he
should send me back home
but I didn’t feel right do it
it was strange some peas there and maybe
it was a difficult step so I didn’t go
and talk to him yet and I was lying in
the bed and I was listening to this
heart train this unbelievable rain on
the Hat of my of my on the roof of my
hut it was like really it was like 12
men it’s one with one hammer in each
hand banging on the roof of my Hut I was
like this is unbelievable and I thought
okay this is this block this is this
famous block that artists talk about I
had never experienced this before not to
be able to come up with an idea what
what am I gonna do it not possible so
that’s me that’s my turn took up to be
there and I’m just gonna go to Milan
tell the director then I meditated a
little bit and then I said literally to
myself Maria don’t work against the
elements work with the elements and
amazingly
within 30 seconds I had this idea it was
there everything was there my concept
was there my element was there
everything was there I went out next day
found academic people found the pots
they were making bought about 300 pots
of course I couldn’t buy everything at
once because they didn’t have so many I
had to go too many people they were
flabbergasted like who’s this crazy lady
what is she doing I took them I broke
off the handles I broke off the ears I
painted them with silver next day after
later of course I had them driven down
for me delivered to the sand field which
I had prepared dug them into the earth
poured water into them and that was it
we had it when it was raining we had
reports when the Sun was shining which
was very strong such Sun when it was
running
we had the reflection of the water and
the silver everything was there circle
of life
infinity water and Miriah was really
happy but I had surrendered I really
surrendered I almost gave up
that’s it Ruth but I didn’t because I
didn’t go I didn’t dare to go to the
director and say I was done I’m from
Iceland like Iceland a lot of ice snow
and water which has influenced my art a
lot as you can see my art is all about
flow and circle of life and infinity I
use water literally and metaphorically I
constantly paint carving stones or weave
drops and ripples to talk about water
water is the most important element on
earth water is also the strongest
element on earth as we know from the
saying the drop holds stone not by force
but by continuously tripping there is no
life and there is no death without water
there is no beginning and there is no
end without water water is everything
there is nothing without water at young
age I already realized how precious
water was that water is kind of the new
oil the United Nations may have
estimated that in 2050 over 2 billion
people will be with out access to clean
water in 48 countries companies monetize
water it is a human human rights of
everyone to have access to water
there is nothing without water water has
no boundaries
water is circles in the universe water
is the beginning and the end of
everything
water is everything talking about
precious things my precious daughter
Astra came running home from school
again yelling again mama mama mama the
kids is good let’s say we have the
coolest house can we make a party here
things change
I guess maybe our children they don’t
get satisfaction from the same from the
parent satisfaction they can be proud of
us they can be happy with us but they
don’t get the same satisfaction until
the feeling ripples down to them you see
Astra now I was at a student
a great poet dreaming of becoming a
novelist see might struggle between
taking the big step of becoming an
artist as a real writer or going for a
secure stop job C will have to surrender
my only dream for her is that she stays
my best friend forever I will have to
surrender trust and let go knowing that
she will find her right flow her own
flow
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