Title: Imaginära öar
Description: Imaginary Islands' takes place on Greenland, in the capital Nuuk where Törnroth is artist-in-residence. The sublime beautiful sea that surrounds the island has allured her to visit. There are many people who have given their life to the sea on Greenland, but there are also many who are dependent on what the sea has to give for survival. In her photographs she expose herself to the ocean. Early mornings, in icing cold and with long photographic exposures she stands and acts with the light from a flashlight as a communicator between the sea and the viewer. 0The paintings in the book are made with water from the Labrador Sea that Törnroth has frozen down in small portions. Then she lets them melt on aquarelle paper together with blue gouache. It takes approximately three hours for two decilitres of seawater to melt, and then additionally three days before the water has fully dried onto the paper. The water and the salt from the ocean together with the blue colour shapes a form that can be seen as an island from above.
Subjects: Gouache painting, Sea in art, Pictorial works
Places: Nuuk (Greenland)
People: Lotta Törnroth