“It doesn't really matter what I do, cycling books, travel companion, drawing, hobby, it somehow all flows together into one whole before you know it. The world is just like that. Maybe you experience more in places that aren't big cities, you know, where the populations are smaller. It's just that all aspects of existence are interrelated. Life is whole.”

“Það er eiginlega sama hvað ég geri, hjólabækur, ferðafélag, teikning, áhugamál, þetta rennur einhvern veginn allt saman í eina heild áður en maður veit af. Bara, heimurinn er þannig. Kannski upplifir maður meira á stöðum sem eru ekki stórborgir, sko, þar sem að heildirnar eru smærri. Að bara, allir þættir tilverunnar eiga snertifleti. Lífið er heild.”

Ómar Smári Kristinsson | Map-maker and bicycle tour book writer

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The sculpted map on the wall in this exhibition is produced in FabLab Strandir with data rendering generated with Touch Terrain, an open source web app project developed by Chris Harding Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University and Franek Hasiuk, Kansas Geological Survey. Geospatial dataset citation: Yamazaki D., D. Ikeshima, R. Tawatari, T. Yamaguchi, F. O'Loughlin, J.C. Neal, C.C. Sampson, S. Kanae & P.D. Bates. A high accuracy map of global terrain elevations. Geophysical Research Letters, vol.44, pp.5844-5853, 2017.

Special thanks to Sýslið Verkstöð for providing technical and fabrication support.