„Dear Icelanders...“ was a work I made in 2004.  It is combined with relifs of my island twisted in some way´s.  For exsample mirrored both horrisontal and vertical, covered with bandaid like it was injured and covered with different textures.  I also made a sandbox with the shape of the island, filled with sand and tools and guests could play with the sand.  Then I used text taken from a so called „happyness survey“ but this anual survey had made much publicity in Iceland at thet time saying that we Icelanders were the happyest nation in the world. When reading through the questions and answers in the survey I saw that there were many contradictions in it.  I picked out some of the text and made it sound like different statements about Icelanders.  It gave an imige of us as a nation that was worth thinking about.  This exhibition was rather political at that time because the government was building a lot of dams for example Karahnjuka in the east side of the country and enviromantalists (among them many artist) were protestin a lot worrying about the inviromental effects on the island.